SDAI in his youthful ignorance declares:
>"Fortunately, most Americans see that when their children are being shot, their cities and government attacked - the "we deserve it" crowd is not a serious alternative."

Our children aren't being "shot" SDAI, but they are being run over, poorly educated, many don't have health insurance, and one out of every six goes to bed hungry every night because their parents are below the poverty level, etc. The only ones being "shot" are the ones who's father forgot to lock his gun up and let Johnny shoot his younger brother.
As for cities and governments being "attacked", please get a grip.
We've had ONE massive tragedy in the WTC last year that SHOULD have been prevented if our bloated, ineffective 30 billion dollar-a-year "intelligence agencies" had actually been doing their JOB. And why is our President actively blocking ANY investigation into these very same failures?
WHY was perfectly traceable weapons grade anthrax sent to the leaders of the Democratic parties right after 9/11? And why (if our defenses are under control) has this perpetrator not been identified and caught?

The "we deserve it" crowd are only interested and responsible American citizens who disagree with certain elements of our tax-payer funded government who seem to contribute to the never ending "war" by the very means of our "foreign policies" which are nothing more than MORE dollars in their conservative bank accounts.
Steal from the poor to give to the rich.
Take from the rich to stay in power.
We are becoming a military plutocracy.
Human lives are NOTHING.
They use words to stir the sleeping masses into a nationalistic frenzy.

Please....please, get a grip.