Furthermore, what is artificial life support? Terri breathes on her own, and maintains her own heartbeat. No machine is doing that for her. She is being fed and hydrated by a tube. It is true if you remove tube she will starve to death in about 14 days. It is also true that if you didn't eat or drink for 14 days same would probably happen to you. What is artificial about that? Food and water are essential to life, so all they are doing is feeding Terri to keep her alive through a different means than you and I receive sustenance. If Terri Schiavo would have received a pace maker to keep her heart beating and did not have brain damage, would they disconnect pace maker because it is artificial life support? I don't think so. If we disconnect feeding tube does Terri die ? No she lives until she starves to death, something that would happen to you or me if we were denied food and water.

There are those who are saying Govenor Bush and Florida State Legislature are playing god here. I submit to you that I think it is Mr. Schiavo and Florida courts who are playing god here.

I see no evidence that Terri ever stated that she would want her life ended under these circumstances. I see no evidence that Terri is in a continuing vegatative state. As a matter of fact is see evidence via video clips and pictures that contradict that theory.

In my opinion, Schindlers are not responsible for Terri's condition, and as caring, loving parents, their motives are clear, I am not so sure that Mr. Schiavo is not responsible for Terri's condition or what his motives are for ending her life.

Terri Schiavo's parents should be awarded guardianship of their own daughter, a daughter they conceived, bore, and raised. If Mr. Schiavo wants to go on with his life with his live in girlfriend, their child and one soon to come, so be it. If it is public criticism that he fears I suggest to you that it already exists, and will be far worse if Terri's feeding tube is diconnected and she is allowed to starve to death.

A death that we wouldn't wish on a dog never mind another human being.

The memo also said that a clandestine source stated in 1998 that a Bin Laden cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks. It went on to say: We have not been able to corroborate some of more sensational threat reporting, such as Bin Laden saying in 1998 that he wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar'Abd al-Rahman and other U.S. held extremists. Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The memo ended stating that FBI was conducting 70 Bin Laden related field investigations in U.S. and that CIA and FBI were investigating a report of a call to embassy in UAE in May stating that a group of Bin Laden supporters were in U.S. planning attacks with explosives.

It certainly seems to me that Dr. Rice hit nail right on head when she stated in her opening statement, that all intelligence before 9/11 attacks was "not specific as to time, nor place, nor manner of attack." Anyone who really wants to find out truth can see that this memo was full of old information, that last paragraph of memo, only part of memo that dealt with current information at time was ambiguous at best.

The fact that FBI and CIA were conducting investigations into possible Al-Qaeda in United States planning attacks shows that steps were being taken on those suspicions and that any logical person reading memo would conclude that proper action would be taken by these agencies if it were warranted.

What it does not show is that we knew that aircraft were going to be used in attacks against United States citizens, or that President was briefed on such information, because simple truth and fact of matter is ladies and gentlemen, memo did not state that and he wasn't briefed as such.

This so called smoking gun has turned out to be nothing more than a leaky water pistol, it hasn't done any damage, it's running out of ammo, and it's all wet.