and all this time I thought the war would stop them from following us home

More proof that the Iraq war is a Farce and the Dubya is an idiot.

The problem with the idea that without the war terrorists will follow us home is that the the terrorists are already here. Put Iraq, Iran, Saudia Arabia and other religious countries on the "band to travel to the US" list and the problem goes away. Is there anything that anyone from those countries can provide us so that we shouldn't ban them in our country. Oh yeah OIL! Nothing else.
And don't start about freedom and the mixing pot of America.....those rules don't apply until you are here. If your country gets it together then maybe its people can come here. Of course the NY cab drivers association would run into trouble.
This country is at war for the rest of our lives and beyond because it is a religious war. Bin Laden won. He pulled us in and we will be in it forever. That is terror.
By going to war against terror Bush created a terror in the minds of US citizens.
And this blanket statement about war on terror, what is that? Terror is not tangible, so now if Bush and the next president want to go to war with some group they lump that group under the terror umbrella.
You are on lock down and don't even know it. Just think of what you were doing a little over 4 years ago, no matter that the trade centers had been attacked; we were getting back to normal, planning vacations, trips and whatever else. Now when you plan a trip or think about going to a foreign country, I bet one of the first apprehensions you have has something to do with war or terror.
You may get past it, but just thinking about it takes a little bit away from the trip.

Foreplay for the dry assing you are about to receive

Look at this crap, the oil companies are now prediciting in our faces that gas prices will rise! Like anyone knows if we will have a hurricane. Last year we were supposed to have a strong season and what did we get, I think one small wind storm about as strong as a cabbage fart.
The culture of fear that Bush and the adminstration has been forcing down our throats is now spreading to climactic predictions. What is next you ask?
Watch - Bush will figure out that global warming is profitable in the futures market and the price of everything will rise because he will come upwith some new program or government office to report on the effects of global warming on crops, oil as it pertains to hurricane destruction of oil platforms, and how caramel melts in candy bars. Meanwhile people will go broke just trying to get to work and keep this machine of country moving, though to the worker it is just a job to keep over priced fuel in a car to get them to a job to get a paycheck to buy more gas to buy overpriced food.
It has to fall at some point; the people that work will eventually not be able to keep up and the machine will slowly grind down. But then an election will come and new hope will be born, and that hope will quickly be squashed out by some other fucking idiot politician, though never as much an idiot as the current idiot in office.
And now I have lost steam for writing this.