All the veterans who have done so much for our country. Security, it has to be looked upon the backdrop since what has happened since september 11. The current threat that we see emanating from the middle east is a reminder of how real and constant the threat is. When we get into the foreign aspect of it, we have a president who spent the last campaign and most recently gave a speech in early may where he basically said al qaeda had been decimated, implied the war against islamic terrorism had been won, and we could retreat to a pre9 11 mindset, saying there would be occasional thugs around the world who would give themselves an islamic title, if al qaeda had b