You may think that Homeland Security is doing a poor job.  What with enormous amounts of waste in their contracting efforts, and rules that seem designed to contrate on the threat posed by shoes.  However, how can you feel bad after seeing this?

Yes, that's a policeman.  Yes, that's an armored personal carrier.

And the site that warrants this level of protection?  NYC harbor?  Downtown DC?  Nope.  Try Germantown, Tennessee.  You got a problem with that?

You may think that Homeland Security is doing a poor job.  What with enormous amounts of waste in their contracting efforts, and rules that seem designed to contrate on the threat posed by shoes.  However, how can you feel bad after seeing this?

Yes, that's a policeman.  Yes, that's an armored personal carrier.

And the site that warrants this level of protection?  NYC harbor?  Downtown DC?  Nope.  Try Germantown, Tennessee.  You got a problem with that?

Here's an important story that got knocked off the front page as all eyes turn to the Middle East and watched the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, and proof through the night we've no plans over there.

The nomination of the Defense Department's general counsel, William J. Haynes II, to a U.S. appeals court is endangered by concerns about the truthfulness of testimony he gave at his confirmation hearing, senators said.

Their assessment came after the Air Force's judge advocate general, Maj. Gen. Jack L. Rives, disputed Haynes's assertion that he had consulted career military lawyers before recommending the use of physical and mental coercion to interrogate terrorism suspects."

For all those hysterical polemicists who ignored career military commanders when it came to invading Iraq and career military lawyers when it came to using torture.  Prepare to be shocked ....

A recent Zogby poll has been getting a fair amount of press because 72% of soldiers say they want to come home.  That is understandable, and not all that newsworthy.  What is stunning to me is why the soldiers think they are Iraq.  

Short and sour.  You can get the report from CNN's website.

The following document articulates the broad strategy the President set forth in 2003  and provides an update on our progress as well as the challenges remaining.          

"The United States has no intention of determining the precise form of Iraq's new  government.  That choice belongs to the Iraqi people.  Yet, we will ensure that one  brutal dictator is not replaced by another.  All Iraqis must have a voice in the new  government, and all citizens must have their rights protected.    

Rebuilding Iraq will require a sustained commitment from many nations, including  our own: we will remain in Iraq as long as necessary, and not a day more."    - President George W. Bush, February 26, 2003

Read it and weep.