Daschle - "We can't find bin Laden, we haven't made real progress" in finding key elements of al-Qaida," the South Dakotan said. "They continue to be as great a threat today as they were one and a half years ago. So by what measure can we claim to be successful so far?"

Can’t argue with that. Facts. Exactly what Bush, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft say, for a change.

And, with only a few suspects the FBI cannot find the person who mailed anthrax to two US Senators. Fact.

Is there any meaning in the realities that the only anthrax mailed to political figures was sent, post-Jeffords, to only two Senators, both Democrats, and both from states with Republican governors? Facts.

Getting nowhere on the terror front, but nearer the oil field jackpot. We need a bigger military, so as to get nowhere faster.

Arf (the facts just grind ‘em down. Or would if they could grasp them)