[swarthyguy]

Let's not tear each other apart over finger pointing and assigning blame. Lots of mis-steps and political considerations everywhere. Let's focus on fighting the war on radical islam.

Calling it the war on terror is like calling WW2 a war on the Blitzkrieg. Terrorism is a tactic used by states to deflect attention from their own culpability. Let's DECLARE War on our enemies; any countries you can think of?

[weikel]

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, then Iraq maybe after that.

[self_evident]

"When he said that, I turned to my wife and said, 'Bush just won Michigan,' " David Mack, vice president of the Middle East Institute, a Washington think tank, told the Detroit Free Press.

Bush lost both the primary (to John McCain) and the general (to Al Gore) elections in Michigan.