Bin Laden attacked us and yet we forget that during the Afgan-Russian conflict...WE the USA outfitted him gave him money and looked on him as a friend...if I'm not mistaken that was under Reagan and Bush's watch.

And about the "Patriot Act" does anyone else feel that this act is very close to being unconstitutional??? Miranda rights are not given, you can be detained for fitting a terrorist profile (being muslim, being arab, or giving to charity for orphaned children and widowed women only to find out it was a front for Al-queda) when racial profiling of blacks is illegal. So how is this "Act" worth anything other than better communication between law enforcement agencies(how hard is that to do without the un"Patriot Act"???