God, I'm Glad I Don't Live in New Jersey

According to the Bush Administration and its enablers we have to continue to fight a war in Iraq to protect ourselves from terrorism, a war that's costing, oh, somewhere around a trillion dollars with billions of that unaccountably being poured into the coffers of private contractors and war profiteering corporatons. Ok. Fine. But if protecting America from devastating terrorist attacks is importat enough that Bush the Decider decided we had to invade a country that didn't attack us, depose its dictator, and drain the treasury and the military then we must surely spare no expense at securing areas that are at high risk for a terrorist attack on American soil. In case, you know, a few terrorists somehow slip through the cracks in Iraq (or elsewhere in the world where there just might be terrorists) and actually make it, you know, "over here" to attack us. Personally, I am not so confident that all the terrorists in the world are and forever always will be in Iraq that I wouldn't take heed of the following:

less than two months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11,...publicly released government documents disclosed the existence of more than 100 factories and other facilities where a successful attack would produce toxic clouds with the potential to severely sicken or kill at least a million people.

But apparently that's just me. Personally, I thing that when it comes to things that might actually keep us safe, spending money seems like a good idea. Bush and his Administration see things differently. They want to prevent congress and state legislatures from passing and enforcing laws that "require stringent anti-terror security measures at facilities storing poisonous materials such as chlorine and methyl mercaptan." So, taxpayers can pay for waste and excess in Iraq but when it comes to anti-terror regulations for chemical plants at home Bush suddenly has a problem with "tax increases and runaway spending." I feel so safe.