UPDATE: BBC is reporting the arrested suspects are Asian. - M. R.

There are reports that the car was traveling 30 MPH when it veered into the building. Only 30? That may be speeding in an airport zone, but hardly seems like the speed one associates with a terrorist attack.

Finally, there were TWO people inside the car. Why waste two suicide bombers in a single attack? Second, they are both still alive, although burned. The latest report is that the driver, after leaving his car, attempted to open a rear door and get something out.

Folks, this looks like a car accident to me. - M. R.

The real question is, what is the City of New York terrified of people filming? - M. R.

I knew you could! - M. R.

Note the delivery date: the third quarter of this year. - M. R.

That ought to scare the stuffing out of the white house!

Pardon my cynicism, but I would be very surprised if anything came out of this "threat".

This appears to be pre-election year grandstanding, pure and simple. - M. R.

Unfortunately for the Palestinian people, and with the help of Abbas, it appears to be working. - M. R.

But of one thing we can be sure: his un-ending, absolute fealty to Israel. - M. R.

See The Lie Of The Century - M. R.

So, Ron Paul supporters need to mobilize now to monitor the voting in their district. - M. R.

Some wags have stated that war is how Americans learn geography; unfortunately, it is also the way far too frequently that they learn history. - M. R.

The Democrats will not win the White House in 2008. They will probably lose both houses of Congress in 2008.

The reason the Democrats will fail in 2008 is that they were sent to Congress in 2006 with a clear mandate to end the war and prosecute the people who lied us into it.

But right from the start you declared impeachment "off the table", and frankly I don't care what your stated reasons are, the bottom line is that you did not do what WE THE PEOPLE sent you to office to do.

Actions speak louder than words. Where are your actions? I do not hear your words. What have you DONE to end the war? What have you DONE to punish those who lied us into it?

Nothing?

Therein lies the end of the Democrats' control of Congress. - M. R.

The US Government knows that the American people are fed up with endless wars and excessive taxation by a government that simply refuses to listen to them any more. The US Government knows that all of America have been very sympathetic to the complete abandonment of the survivors of hurricane Katrina. The US Government knows that private conversations are starting to seriously discuss overthrow and revolution. The US Government knows that with the Army and National Guard mired in Iraq and preparing to go into Iran that a rebellion here in the states stands a good chance of scaring investors and creditors into seeking new homes for their money.

So what does the US Government do? Look what it did in Iraq. The Sunni and Shi'a were tricked into fighting each other so they would not unite and fight the US. And it worked so well the US Government may well try to do the same thing here in the US, trick the whites and blacks back into hating each other and fighting each other, so that We The People cannot get together and force the government to stop these insane wars.

Just think about it. All it takes is a few agents provocateurs to turn us against each other at a time when we most need to stand together. Don't fall for it. - M. R.

Anyone care to bet they find an autographed picture of Ahmadinajad in the glove box? :) - M. R.

One would imagine he'd be much happier living in a dictatorship, where all the methods he's described are fully in place, and civil liberties are just a quaint remnant of times past.

And the comment about an "aggressive media"?

The media is only "aggressive" when they are looking at things that typically don't rock the boat, or make people think. - M. R.

In the case of Iran, they are building nuclear power stations. Nobody has found any evidence that Iran is doing anything BUT building power stations. And, under the terms of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Iran has a legal right, recognized by the United States, to build nuclear power stations.

So why is Obama ready to bomb Iran?

Because that is what ISRAEL wants! - M. R.

Sending an unmistakable message to the government that We The People still own this country, PRICELESS! - M. R.

The US occupation is losing, big-time.

One has to wonder (in their "cornered-animal logic" kind of way) how soon the Pentagon will decide that it must destroy the city to "save" it - if they even can. - M. R.

This is our legacy, folks: this is what the government is doing with your tax dollars.

Imagine, just for one brief moment, if one of these pictures was that of your kid.

How would you feel about the occupying power who spread this poison, knowing what it was going to do to your kids? - M. R.

The US has one of the highest rates of incarceration (and recidivism) in the industrialized world.

And the higher the rate of recidivism, the more in becomes apparent that the correction system in this country is absolutely not working, either for those incarcerated, or society at large. - M. R.

Seriously, we have a couple hundred channels on the cable box, and they are full of programs my wife and I have already seen many times over, or its propaganda crap (as a side note, "Mighty Heart", the propagandizing of the Daniel Pearl story, has cratered at the box office, opening with an average of $2,914 per screen on June 22 and plummeting to just $293 per screen after only a few days). - M. R.

Yes, remember Nancy Pelosi, who became Speaker of the House when Congress was voted into Democratic hands on the promise that the war would be stopped and those who lied us into it would be investigated? Rem,ember how upon attaining office the first thing she declared was that impeachment was "off the table?"

The bottom line is that Congress won't do ANYTHING. We are already in the dictatorship George Bush loves to joke about. How many times do you have to see Congress pontificate and posture and preen and try to look good for the public until it gets through your head that Congress cannot do anything BUT try to look good for the public, because they have sold their souls and cannot do anything other than what their masters allow.

Bush will take this to the Supreme Court, which will rule in favor of "Executive Privilege", even though no such privilege exists in the Constitution.

We are not past the Claire Wolfe stage. - M. R.

Free and fair competition?

That's a real joke, played over and over with abandon on the American taxpaying public. - M. R.

And remember, folks, these experiments were funded by your tax dollars. - M. R.

And what do we have to show for it with regard to training Iraqi forces so that when they "stand up", we can "stand down"?

Bubkis, nothing, nada, zip.

And not only do we have nothing to show for this money: we also have another (in a huge surge of unintended consequences) nifty outcome. Frequently, the soldiers who got our training are using it to fight and kill American troops. - M. R.

It wouldn't have worked, and would simply have been a device by which wages in this country would have been driven down even further through a flood of cheap labor, which was the design intent. - M. R.

Bush is doing a remarkable job of setting himself up for a contempt of congress charge, which is an impeachable offense. - M. R.

And by the way, John, if you see US military intervention in Iran as the only solution to protect poor little Israel (which, the world knows, does have nuclear weapons), let me ask you just one quick question.

Are any of your immediate family of appropriate military age enlisted, and fighting on the front lines in Afghanistan or Iraq, or in the military in any capacity?

I would be willing to bet that the answer is a resounding "no".

John, please be advised that Americans clearly understand that when people like you advocate for war as the only solution in any situation, it's always other people's kids who wind up fighting, getting maimed, and dying. - M. R.

Hey, all you folks who were going to visit Hot Springs, you can come here and visit Hawaii instead! :) - M. R.

Obviously, no where to be found.

These refugees can simply just rot, for all this administration cares; they're just casualties of war who haven't had the sense to die quickly enough, so that the spotlight of the shame won't be focused on the reasons they're stranded - and dying - on the Iraqi/Syrian border. - M. R.

And in terms of reconstruction contracts in Iraq, this kind of behavour is probably not all that unusual.

This guy simply got caught. - M. R.