SQ: The quote was from our president. My point was there seems to be a consistent drumbeat telling us about things that are about to happen that don’t. i.e. how many times were we told that it looks like we have found WMDs, only to be told it was a false alarm? Same with Bin Laden and this other guy we have had cornered for about three days now.

I don't totally blame the administration for this. No doubt they were clutching at straws to prove their allegations of WMDs, but another part of this is the media seemingly trying to make the war and the battle against terrorism, which are two VERY different things, into some sort of spectator sport.

Fox and CNN seem the worst with their constant "breaking news” stories. The news folks can get a lot more mileage out of something if they tell us what is about to happen, what is happening and what did happen. If they cry wolf too long we get turned off. I imagine we will find Osama one day. I sure hope we do. But by the time we do the press and the administration will have us believe it is a huge victory. I don’t think so. I think this Al Quida monster has too many cells to ever stop totally. Too bad we wasted so much time and energy in Iraq when we could have been fighting the real threat - Al Quida.