jg, perhaps you’re right on numbers, assuming your source is better than the LA Times – I simply choose to trust one of the top five papers in the country while you choose to not. I think if the LA Times was fudging their numbers so publicly, there would be hell to pay once people started stepping forward to refute them. And yes, these people do want to wipe us off the face of the earth; but their capability to do so has been greatly exaggerated in the past six years. As it stands, I have a greater chance of being killed by an asteroid than by international terrorists. I don’t think our response has been commensurate to the risk is all. We should be doing all we can to stop terrorists, but this country faces many greater risks to its well being than terrorism. I love this country as much as you do, but simply disagree with the current administrations tactics in its response to September 11th.