ER, I truly admire your intellect, your discrimination and your calm, articulate nature. And I can't let you get away with this, no matter how clumsily I have to respond.

When GWB started the war in Iraq he engaged in "Shock and Awe". That was a campaign in the capital of Iraq of huge, noisy bombs, enormous explosions, fire, smoke and concussions designed to destroy the will of the Iraqis to resist.

Terrorism. Plain and simple. By definition. Just because it was an army doing it doesn't make it any different.

During the American Revolutionary War The British wore scarlet coats, white pants and fired at their opponents from well disciplined squares. They complained about the casually dressed colonists shooting at them from behind trees.

A uniform does not change the nature. An F-16 does not sanitize terrorism. An M-4 does not legitimize terrorism.

You have to be able to see that. I refuse to believe you can't.