5:19:09 PM for the life of me, I cannot find a way to believe that the war in Iraq has made us safer. But I can find several ways to recognize that it has decreased our safety
squandered immense amounts of good will toward our country
demonstrated that our governement does indeed act in a misleading if not malicious fashion towards its own citizens and towards other countries
reduced our civil liberties
and compromised any confidence that the government will not simply grab us for unwarranted reason and throw us into the gulag minus access to fair trial
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ReutersBush Insists He Has Made America Safer. OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Under fire for intelligence failures at home and abroad, President Bush tried on Monday to convince American voters he has made them safer since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and told them "we were right to go into Iraq." [Reuters: Top News]
1:41:19 PM ReutersU.S. Mulls How to Delay Nov. Vote in Case of Attack. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior House Democratic lawmaker was skeptical on Sunday of a Bush administration idea to obtain the authority to delay the November presidential election in case of an attack by al Qaeda, [Reuters: US Domestic News]