I'm a pretty serious Independent.

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'

We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.