Give up! The incompetence of our leaders is their weakness.

We have news that opium production is way up.

Antonio Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, said in Kabul that the record harvest of 6,100 tons was "staggering" and "very bad news". The southern part of Afghanistan, where Nato took control from US-led troops on July 31, was "displaying the ominous hallmarks of incipient collapse, with large-scale drug cultivation and trafficking, insurgency and terrorism, crime and corruption", Mr Costa said in a separate statement released by his office.

In addition, listening to NPR the elections we've held for the Afghanis are a joke, corruption is rampant, and the democracy we've exported is viewed with contempt by the populace. Further, Pakistan is allying itself with the Taliban despite word from our generals that they are not.

Polls are showing that anti-incumbent feelings are at a maximum and every day reading Kos the signs are the Republicans are in a state of total collapse with signs that if the elections were held today we could take the house and possibly the senate.

Our incomptent leaders say that we're safer but not safe". I think that's called covering all the bases. Most Americans think we're not safer and losing the war on terror. Oh, yeah, and UBL, that guy hiding in a cave? Yeah, he's Hitler now. Is it a Godwin's law violation if the president does it? Considering this guy is in a cave should he be compared to a guy who took over most of Europe?

George Allen is showing that beyond being a racist, he's a general scoundrel. Apparently he's too lazy to introduce his own amendments so he just plagiarized the Democrats' one.

Is there any reason at all to trust these guys any more? I wouldn't put them in charge of security at a highway rest stop.