Bush: Same Old, Same Old I just saw the president on CNN say something like, "We are fighting and beating the terrorists in Iraq so that we don't have to confront them here at home."

Does anyone still believe this nonsense? If we're getting safer at home, why are people getting searched on the subway in New York? Why does Congress want to make Washington air space permanently off-limits?

The truth is, we are creating new terrorists in Iraq, it's very unclear whether we're winning there, and our country feels less safe now than it did in 2002, for example.

Bush added that "we will stay on the offense against these people."

Huh.

Does anyone else feel that we're not exactly taking the offensive, whether in Iraq or at home?

These lines are essentially what Bush has been saying for the past five years. I wonder if the general public isn't finally wising up to the fact that this is, and has always been, pablum. There may be serious, legitimate rationales for the war in Iraq. But Bush isn't making them.  ¶ 3:30 PM