[James @ Feb 14th 2007 4:30PM]

Why not put the money into preventing terrorism in the first place? Terrorism doesn't just happen because someone has gone nuts all of a sudden. The root causes are there, it's just that our government chooses to ignore them because it conflicts with national (and sometimes personal) interests. How many less terrorists would there be had we not invaded Iraq? What did the American public gain from the war? Nothing! What did people like Chaney gain from the war? Millions of dollars. People hate us for a reason. They hate us because we send Israel laser guided bombs to kill innocent civilians in Lebanon and at then turn around and send the Lebanese humanitarian aid in the form of wheat. Similarly, who do you think created the Mujahideen in Afghanistan? Who armed them all these years? We did, to fight the Soviet Union. Things like this come back to bite us for a reason. It doesn't happen arbitrarily.