The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

I wish President Bush knew better than to dishonor America's veterans by playing the politics of fear and smear on Veterans Day. This administration misled a nation into war by cherry-picking intelligence and stretching the truth beyond recognition.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge -- no matter how great -- because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

The country and the Congress were misled into war.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

Every reform needs examples more than advocates