CARVILLE:   Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. We've been firing questions at our guests and firing questions at each other. And now it's time for you to fire questions at us. And you'll fire away. And the first fire is beautiful Nancy Shockey from Glendale, Arizona. And she says: "The only Americans who have ever been in danger of an imminent threat from Iraq are our 140,000 brave men and women currently serving in Iraq."    Way to go, Nancy. I remember them talking about mushroom clouds over New York. And the whole lying pack of them, they didn't have a plan to get us out of here. 
CARLSON:   Derek Weimer from Cincinnati writes: "I've been a big Fox News fan for the last several years. However, after this irresponsible stunt, I've decided perhaps I should start checking out CROSSFIRE regularly and looking to other services for my news."    I have to say, there's some talented people on Fox, truly. But they are humorless and thin-skinned. 
CARVILLE:   You know, what offends people is these clods scaring the dickens out of little children, out of your kids.    If you're man -- if you want to take somebody on, be man enough to take on the guy that you have a grievance with. Don't take it out on his wife and kids. 
CARLSON:   All right. And we have an audience question. Yes, sir? 
CARVILLE:   Did you want to ask about how cowardly Fox News was? I'm sorry. Go ahead. 
CARLSON:   Now, James, you're making me sympathize with Fox. Please. 
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:   Hi. I'm Bill from Cumberland, Virginia. What's going to happen to President Bush's popularity polls if we never get any weapons of mass destruction? 
CARVILLE:   Well, we're not. So... 
CARLSON:   Well, we don't know. It's ludicrous to make predictions at this point. One never knows. I think it's a big deal. I said so the other day. The war was predicated, at least in part, on the existence of WMD. And if they're not there, it's significant. No doubt about it. 
CARVILLE:   Yes, sir? 
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:   Hi. I'm Nick (ph) from Maine. And I was wondering if you think that Howard Dean's appeal to the left, which has made him so popular in the primary, will have alienated the support he would need from the center to be elected president? 
CARLSON:   Well, of course. I'm mean, come on. 
CARVILLE:   Actually, I'm not sure that all of his appeal is to the left. There are a lot of McCain Dean voters. I think his appeal is more to anti-Washington people within the party, as much as it to the left. 
CARLSON:   I think that's true. But when you look at Howard Dean, do you say to yourself, yes, he can keep our country safe? I don't think you do. 
CARVILLE:   You know what? I'll tell you what he won't do. You look at Howard Dean, you say, he won't lie to get us into war. From the left, I'm James Carville. That's it for CROSSFIRE. 
CARLSON:   And from the right, I'm Tucker Carlson. Join us again next time -- that would be Monday -- for yet more CROSSFIRE.
