Pay to be snooped by the government
I guess this is America's express screening plan, which I think is dumb. There's no way to make things perfectly safe, and we're wasting our time and 5 billion dollars a year doing so. There's also the report of airport screeners still letting bombs through. Until we can get screeners to nab the bombs everytime, I don't think we should be trying to hurry people through. Want proof that the government can't handle background checks? How about the 18,000 airport screeners who weren't? If they can't be bothered to run background checks on the people who check your luggage, do you think they'll have the time to check your background, or that guy who just walked through the gate?
Since September of 2001, how many terrorists have we captured in our nation's airports?
Cheney calls U.S. support of Iraq "unshakeable"
A hotel in Baghdad in Iraq has just been bombed, and the quote the media gets is from the Vice-President, who basically makes the pledge of U.S. support in Iraq. Does anyone else find it curious that it is the V.P. (who isn't on the election ticket this year) making this statement, and not Dubya? Only two words I can think of for this rare public statement from Cheney: Election Year.
If Bush said the same statement, and then later pulls the troops out in June/July as some political analysts are predicting, then his earlier statement could be used against him. By having Cheney make the statement, he can deny that statement and make the claim this was the plan all along.
Another factor can be due to insufficient training of the airport screeners.