I've tried to avoid the coverage of Bush II using this day as a way to continue his dogma concerning "terrorism" because it infuriates me to read it. I'd rather he had spent the day with family members of the 500+ who have died in Iraq, a good three quarters of whom were killed after he declared hostilities were over. He should talk less and listen more.

The rhetoric, however, is inexcusable. I'd bet the farm (if I had one) that this quote from Bush's speech today --
"There is no neutral ground -- no neutral ground -- in the fight between civilization and terror, because there is no neutral ground between good and evil, freedom and slavery, and life and death" -- has been used repeatedly before -- in terrorist training camps around the world. Except they'd be talking about us. As long as this remains a fight against "good and evil" we don't stand a chance. And every Bush campaign ad proclaiming he's the one that keeps us all safe from terrorists like nobody else can, serves as a "triple dog dare" to those committed to a single purpose: destroying what they see as evil.

It's not personal, George. It's their business.