The argument about lightning is valid. Try to think with your head, not with some FOX-fed adrenalin rush. Terrorism against Americans is simply such a statistically SMALL number that it's a NEGLIGIBLE number...except that it provided a dark, dramatic backdrop for Bush, so he could chip away at the "land of the free and home of the brave". Dude. As Ben Franklin said, "Those who would trade a little bit of liberty for temporary safety deserve neither." So strap on your balls, and realize that there's no REASON to be afraid of terrorism, just as there's no reason to be afraid of lightning. And it's most certainly no reason to be trading in freedoms, allowing Bush to pump insane amounts of deficit-spending into the military, pass "patriot" laws that curtail the very freedoms we're supposed to be defending, create a monolithic, secretive Department of Homeland Insecurity, and killing off innocents in Iraq. ( 1,000+ US soldiers and 13,000+ Iraqi CIVILIANS. Not counting the innocients in Afghanistan. See www.IraqBodyCount.com for details.) Frankly, I'm tired of Bushes and Reagans scaring us with invisible enemies. Drug "war", terrorism "war"... It's McCarthyism all over again. Get RID of it. Kerry ain't great, but he's not a neocon turd like Bush. Here's a chilling quote from Hermann Goerring: "Naturally, the common people don't want war... (but) it is always a simple matter to drag people along ... All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. --Herman Goerring at the 1946 Nuremberg trials. Deos that sound like Bush talking privately with Rove, or what ?