Don't have a coronary Eric, I mean that kindly, no sarcasm. I agree wholeheartedly, but we let 'em get in charge, and 'we' means us, our parents, grandparents, etc. You can worry too much about this garbage, and ya can't do much about it sir: so love your wife, hug them girls a little extra everyday, and do your business honorably so you can look all them bastards in the eye without hesitation.

And they are corrupt so and so's. Pretty much from the top in DC down to the local precinct, ward or what have you. I say that because next to no one is on the rooftops day and night raising a ruckus. Go along to get along is the word to the wise, politically. Whether the subject is illegal immigration or the Nation Building(sic) mission in Iraq.

I got one for ya, twist's my willie every time I don't hear it: "well y'know we had to go in and save America from Saddam's WMD's"; but no one, and I mean no one, mentions that we gave Saddam the damn things to use against his own people and the Iranians, and the US was Aok with that. When was the last time you heard anyone mention that portion of Powell's confession to the UN, since he spoke those words himself?

Your grief and frustration are justified but you've got better stuff, close at hand, to focus on favorably. Y'know!-)

Just a kindly reminder....