How is it that the Director of Homeland Security can say the nation is "significantly safer than we were 20 months ago" and at the same time government officials are announcing that the U.S. government will raise its terror alert status to "high" from "elevated" because of a renewed risk of terrorist attack in the United States. What does this mean? We are safer than when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked without our military being able to respond immediately? Does this mean that even though we are not as safe as we were last week when the terror alert level was yellow (since it is now going to be orange), it is still better than it was when we were ignoring terrorist threats? The Bush administration continues to do the same amazing job in leading this country in the wrong direction.