Countering the spin

If you listen to the Republican political ads, they would have you believe that the American people must stay with Republican control of the congress or terrorists will kill us all.

They want you to believe that only they can make America safer.

I think we should examine that record.

They abandoned the Agreed Framework, and North Korea detonated a nuclear device.

Osama bin Laden is still free, releasing the occasional video to remind us he is out there, taunting. Bush said he doesn't think about him. Remember that? Osama was the one who orchestrated the attacks on the Cole, the embassies and September 11. He lives a free man today, with all that blood on his hands.

Iraq creates new terrorists every day. Sixteen intelligence agencies say so.

The war in Afghanistan is being lost by neglect, becaue we are bogged down in Iraq.

And New Orleans was left to drown.

Yes. These are the people who want you to believe that only they can make you safe.

If you believe them, you are dead wrong.