If you haven't already heard about it (and if you've been watching the news on TV, you probably haven't), read the Downing Street Memo:

Downing Street Memo

And then sign John Conyers petition to move forward a congressional investigation into why the Bush administration claimed that the war in Iraq was spurred by Saddam's WMD, when this memo clearly shows that the decision to go to war had been made regardless. The administration certainly wasn't going to let a little thing like the truth get in the way of going to war. Furthermore, the memo clearly shows that there was no plan for how to handle the aftermath of the war...which should come as no surprise to anyone considering how things have gone.

John Conyers Petition

Well, it only took me two years between posts. I heard this yesterday and it was one of those things I knew must be true, but still found hard to believe until I checked it this morning.

The "Current" Threat Level from the Department of Homeland Security has not been changed since exactly one week after the 2004 Presidential Election. See for yourself:

"Current" Threat Level

I want to do some more research on this, but considering the threat level was a topic of almost daily news leading up to the election, it is staggering to think that it hasn't changed since then.

This also lead me to think about all of the stories of terrorist threats and "terror cells" being broken up in the months before the election. Again, I haven't done the research on this yet, but I will. Seems to me, we haven't heard too much about this in the past 8 months. The fact that the threat level hasn't changed would seem to support that, but I'll check it out and post my findings.

Is it really plausible that the level of terrorist activity against the United States was so volatile in 2004, and has dropped off the table since George W. Bush got his "mandate"? I doubt it.