making our country safer huh. we diverted resources from, as we have seen lately, a REAL threat to a phantom threat and this is what happens (from today's papers):

The Los Angeles Times' top non-local story reports that the CIA closed out a spy ring in 2002 that it had assigned to monitor Iranian militants in South America. The agency was having some success intercepting information related to Tehran and Hezbollah, but top brass decided that the resources would be better spent on al-Qaida and Iraq. "We're going to be starting from near zero," one CIA official complained of future intelligence gathering on Iran.

one again, a repuke adventure backfiring. only in this case, a result that which can not be sustained without more fear, blood and chaos. i guess the _is a reason why the republicon color is red.