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Fair question. When it comes to distributing the blame of why so many Muslims are in this country Bush must get his fair share. Perhaps an even greater share since he keeps the borders open even after 9/11/01.

Wasn’t it only recently that GW signed a large number of Saudi student visas? Have these prospective students been screened? Who screened them and who provided the background information? Is this not the problem with every immigrant that comes in today - we do not know anything about his personal history?

The President doesn't sign visas, they are issued by the State Department, which last fall issued 10,000 to Saudi Arabian students alone, despite the fact that there is still no system in place for keeping track of them once they arrive here. We have surrendered our soverignty by surrendering the enforcement of our borders, and in this case, it is Bush's fault. He could have shut the borders down on September 12, 2001. Anyone who says we don't have the technolgoy to do that has never used a credit card in restaurant, tried to get on an airplane or passed through the gate to attend a large sporting event.

I had to travel about a month after 9.11 and was on a plane with 10 Kuwaitis in full towel-head mode who told me they were touring the country on vacation, without a care in the world. I wondered at the time what idiot had provided them with visas. Little did I know that Muslims' freedom to come and go in America would be unimpleded. Everyone on the plane stared at them the entire time.