Guess I'm a shallow thinker like Penny. You say, "But an environmental disaster that would outdo all of the above COMBINED would be a chemical, nuclear or biological weapon used by terrorists in one of our large cities if we fail in the war on terror." If this happens, we have only Mr. Bush to thank for making us the most reviled country on the face of the earth, especially to Muslims, the majority religion on the planet. In the meantime, trillions of dollars that could have been spent on domestic problems, such as recovery from Katrina and Rita, are being wasted overseas in a war that should never have been started and is impossible to win, but only makes people with oil interests, like Dick Cheney, richer in the process.

Guess that Ph.D. from UCLA makes me a shallow thinker. I'd hate to imagine what you think of people with lesser educations.

I really am put off by the tone of your message, Barbara.

Cathryn