However, it serves a more useful purpose letting him stay at large.
Hi Mega
What purpose? I'm sure you're right, I think so too, I just can't figure out what it is.
BTW, I live in NYC, and the cost of living here has shot to the moon because of 9/11. Unemployment up. Property taxes up 18.5%. Transit fare going up 25%. Bridge and tunnel tolls going up. Some buildings here cannot even GET insurance, let alone the premium hikes that insurable buildings have had. Some buildings down near Ground Zero CANNOT get insurance, no matter what they agree to pay.
At work they've closed the garage and two entrances to the building. I have to wear a badge to get in. Visitors to my building (the MetLife building 200 Park Av) have to go through metal detectors. I could go on and on...BUT cost of living wages are NOT going up to meet the new expenses. Unless you're rich, you can't afford to live here anymore. But where is the Federal Government? Spending billions on Saddam. For control of oil.
Meantime, in the newspapers are constant reports of the rest of America saying that New York City should stop 'whining.'
Osama screwed up our lives. We live in fear of another terror attack. People are leaving in droves. What happens here affects the stock market. Another hit on NYC by the Osamas of the world waiting for us to focus on Iraq, and the rest of the country will really feel it.
I'm not saying Saddam is a boy scout. He should have been taken out the first time (by Dad.) But Bush is going it alone, and that's scary.
I can't understand why Bush says that we "know" where the weapons of mass destruction are in Iraq, but isn't sharing that info with the weapons inspectors.
Osama isn't finished, which makes it hard for me to comprehend the more useful purpose of letting him stay at large.
--Valerie