when having "good" foreign relations with certain nations compromises your national integrity, then you do whats best for your nation. In what way have your freedoms been infringed upon in real life? so a couple of terrorist looking people have been kept off of certain flights, so arrested foreign nationals are detained for slightly longer periods of time...so what, this is helping keep us safer...i fly frequently, and I would rather not die on my next flight. Also, have you been following the news? they just found mortar shells full of chemical agents. o, and have you read up on what saddam has done to his people? and maybe war wasnt the best way, but it worked, with minimal loss of lives and equipment, and now we have a large force in the middle east as a deterent to other nations that decide to do something stupid. o, and weve got saddam, slowly but surely things in iraq are improving greatly, and the attacks in iraq arent from iraqis predominantly, they are from TCN (third country nationals) mainly lebonese and syrians...the iraqi's are actually generally grateful for us coming. O, and before you mention the economy, Bush is inhereting problems that Clinton swept under the rug. The 90's was a time of over rated stocks, doctored books, and him sleeping with everyone and giving away nuclear secrets.