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Abu-Ghazala is a novice in electoral politics, but he's a member of the board of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. This week he spoke at a news conference to keep attention focused on the hundreds of people being held without charges by the FBI as part of the terrorism investigation. Abu-Ghazala said he was thinking of running even before Sept. 11, but the aftermath pushed him into the race despite the long odds and his controversial positions.
Shortly after the hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Abu-Ghazala said, he was appalled to hear that only 70 percent of Americans polled said the United States should make sure it knows who is responsible for the attack before striking back. It made him wonder about the other 30 percent of Americans.

``We just needed to bomb somebody,´´ he said. ``There was some level of that all over.´´

I really hate Arab bigots who cry out "defamation" to silence critics of Muslim terrorists, and I hate Libertopians who would have had us leave Afghanistan alone, and allow Osama to finish building his radioactive bombs in peace. And I really hate it when those Libertopians accuse the rest of us of being dimwitted and bloodthirsty for not agreeing with them.

Maybe I won't vote at all, I don't think Lantos needs my help...