The terrorists are coming. Daddy Dick Cheney says so. Shrub says so. Colin says so. And they all reassure me that John Kerry is unable and unwilling to defeat them.

Yes, they are coming. As they came to Turkey to bomb the British. As they came to Spain to bomb the Spanish. as they will to Poland, or to Japan, or to the Red Cross, or to poor soldiers in powder blue helmets when our lying leaders turn this mess over to them.

They will come strapped in explosive laden automobiles, flak jackets, "improvised devices" by the side of the road. They may come again in airplanes loaded with fuel and pilots content to burn themselves up to make a point we cannot understand.

They are alleged to have come to Iraq already. As if those who never threw flowers and candy could not elect to throw bombs instead.

The terrorists are coming. My esteemed leaders tell me so, night after night on the evening news.

They come as they once did to Guatemala, Indonesia, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iraq...

"And when the band plays Hail To The Chief, ooh they're pointing the cannon at you."

(Fortunate Son
Creedence Clearwater Revival.)