At least I'm not the only one who's distinctly uncomfortable with John Kerry's problem with "opening firehouses in Baghdad and shutting them in the United States of America." His acceptance speech at the Democratic convebtion was not the first time he's mentioned this.

I thought that the left's method of avoiding the war on terror was to prevent the "root causes" of terror as they see it - primarily poverty. If we don't think the Iraqis are worthy of our charity, then who is? The PLO? The Saudis?