Did I Imagine the Anthrax Attacks?

As President Bush bids farewell to the nation, he appears to be using the reductio ad absurdum arguement to prove that his decisions have made America safer though I have my doubts as to whether he put any thought into his logic selection. The arguement implies several assumptions that the sorry excuses for journalists seem unwilling to challenge: 1) Americans do not travel outside of our borders so attacks on our embassies do not count. 2) Domestic terrorism does not count. 3) Natural disasters should be managed by local authorities (the same people who are evacuating their families). 4) The fact that we have an all volunteer military (not counting stop loss) means that the life of an American soldier, sailor, marine, airmen, or even a coastie is worth less than an American civilian unless the Iraq war saved more than four thousand American civilian lives. Even if we assume that there would have been another equally successful attack equivelant to the September 11th attacks, the Iraq war has still resulted in more Americans dead and we have not prevented the threat of the same attack in the future. I certainly feel safer, but of course I am still alive.