[on-ramp]

the government had all the tools available to them before, to stop 9/11....before the Patriot Act and the illegal Spying.
If they were incompetent then, what makes you think they are more competant now? it'a all a ploy to make it "appear" they are doing their job so they don't lose power, in the meantime taking away more of our rights.

i'm neither a liberal or conservative, not politically active or even vote. just an independent observer...i agree with t951 and cool-chick , they seem to be the more intelligent here posting with more than 1/2 a brain.

As far as Mulho and Flinstone, i group them in the same category as the people who flew those planes into the buildings. brainwashed by pride and arrogance...they believe a government because they like their president. They believe it is ok to invade a country that never attacked us, had no WMD, and posed no real immminent threat to our nation....they believe it because their president/congress told them it was the right thing to do. These actions have killed more than 2,000 troops, injured thousands more, killed thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women, and childred with bombs, etc. Cost the American taxpayer $500+ Billion ...and they support it. If you don't think there's something seriously wrong here, then you're smoking the pipe.

as t951 said earlier, "3.5 Billion people can't be wrong"