Um, no. The deposing of Hussein has opened up the region to a staggering number of new possiblities. I agree that the military leaderhsip needs to GET IT IN GEAR and take the insurgency out, but it's ridiculous to say we're not safer now. Most of the terrorists who would be plotting terror attacks on the homeland are now IN Iraq. Granted the idea is to get them in the grave, but America IS safer now. Iraq will be better off once they're able to defend themselves; nobody said this would be an easy fight. Equating Iraq with Vietnam is an insult to the soliders of both wars.

The only thing in the immediate future that will make us less safe is if Congress passess an excesively restrictive bill that hurts our efforts at interrogating captured terrorists. I'm not promoting torture at all, but rough interogation isn't torture; waterboarding and the like inflicts no permanent harm on them.

And I think ithe information gathering is a necessity. If we don't make them tell us what they're planning, people WILL die.

I'm telling you different and I'm not being voted for.