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No Sir, I beg to differ with you....3,000 innocent lives were lost...I live in NY...been to the WTC...it changes opinions like your's which are now "hollow and meaningless."

"One must also pause to think what it must have been like to be President Roosevelt back in 1940 and 1941. Sitting in the Oval Office, Roosevelt is reading Japanese [Magic] decrypts on a regular basis. They clearly prove- in the same fashion that wiretaps can prove- the aggression Japan is planning in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. They also show the linkage between Berlin and Tokyo, revealing that if Japan goes to war against America, Hitler will also declare war on America.

"Also reading the same material are the Secretary of State, Cordell Hull; the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson; the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Stark (plus his chief of intelligence) and the Chief of Staff of the Army, General George C. Marshall (and his chief of intelligence). Of these men Roosevelt is the only elected official. And he is confronted by an isolationist Congress that steadfastly refuses to listen to any arguement the President might make that America must prepare for war.

"What frustrations Roosevelt must have felt!

"To know what the enemy is doing, but to be unable to tell his opponents in Congress and convince them them of the rightness of his position. Nor can Roosevelt discuss the situation with his supporters and friends. Magic is so secret, so precious, that absolute silence is the order of the day. This element of real life- knowing, but not being able to to do anything about it- is ignored in all the autobiographies, the biographies and the history books."

~~~Marching Orders, the Untold Story of World War Two, Bruce Lee, page 24.

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Among many other victories, "Magic" brought us Midway, the turning point of the war in the Pacific. Magic and Ultra are estimated to have shortened WW2 by 2 years, before the time that Germany and Japan could develop atomic weapons. Roosevelt could not squander this secret in convincing Congress of the Japanese danger in 1940. Is a similar secret about Iraq being kept by Bush today for the same reasons?

I supported the war against Al Quaeda (as indicated in my post) but that doesn't mean that I support an undeclared and endless "war" against every Islamic Tom, Dick, and Harry on the planet earth and every terrorist (real or imagined), including those who had *nothing* to do with September 11. I do not believe in giving the feds a blank check in foreign policy. Do you?