I love liberty over the single life of any America. even my own.
just the same as the solders who died in ww2 where casualties of our liberty, so is anyone that dies because we have the right to privacy. no one wanted or wants either group to do die but they should be honoured for their sacrifice.
I wish I could say the same about the solders in Iraq. they are casualties of our foreign policy. Not to say that they should not be honoured. they gave their lives for our country no matter what the cause, they followed orders and died because of those orders. And they deserve the honour and respect of any American soldier that died in combat.

Hitler was a threat to our way of life and freedoms. He had plans to invade America once he was through with Europe and Russia. The only threat now to our national security is our dependence on oil.

Bush knows this and having military bases all over the middle east is a good way to keep control of the oil.  This is the wrong approach. I am sorry but it is criminal to use something we hold most dear as a club of foreign policy. What we hold most dear is the lives and liberties of Americans and America. We start a war in the middle east big suprise terrorism goes up, we need new "anti terror" laws to take away our freedom.  And in wars lives are lost.

If we could find some group of alternative fuels and energy saving technologies, less polluting technologies. we could beat this. It wont be one single development but a cohesive plan of several part. But the chances of that happening at the current time seem to be about zero.