Mr. Mack must know lots of terrorists and must have psychoanalyzed them as thoroughly as Mr. Bush! How else do these two men know what "would embolden the terrorists and make it more likely that they would attack us here at home"? The president who lost the popular vote in 2000, was installed in the White House by a 5-to-4 vote of the Supreme Court has governed as if he had won by a landslide. And this is the same president who, after winning re-election in 2004, famously told reporters that he had “earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.” The last remaining loyalists surrounding Mr. Bush, Cheney and Rove (and apparently Mr. Diaz-Balart and Mr. Mack) have defied the unanimous opinion of the Joints Chief of Staff in pursuing the diabolical plan of escalating our military presence in the midst of a civil war. All the king’s men were only able to proceed with signing the death warrant on American GIs after firing dissenting generals who would not tow the party line, or bludgeoning others into keeping silent. This betrayal of the lives of our GIs is a criminal act. It is an action that will result in unnecessary deaths. For anyone to call this troop increase a "surge" or a "new plan" – or give it the veneer of credibility -- is to enable a felonious act of lunacy and egomania. All the king’s men have betrayed their country and signed a death warrant on military personnel who believed that their commander-in-chief would only send them into harm’s way to protect our national security. I just don't believe the official diagnosis nor the official remedy. Torturing, raping, and killing Iraqis (at the expense of dead and maimed Americans) doesn't seem like an effective way to make friends. Repeatedly denying that Iraq is like Vietnam doesn't make that true either. In fact, I have seen at least several former Vietnamese go through our CCPS and know more who are adults. I don't know and haven't seen a single Iraqi--yet. Too bad we are swearing in such legislators as Mr. Diaz-Balart and Mr. Mack who want to continue to support a President that is deaf to the people he has sworn to serve. The legislature was designed to check executive power, not to give it monarchical privilege. I'd be willing to bet that neither the president nor Mr. Mack has ever met, let alone psychonalyzed, a "terrorist."