He will get me killed.

-- Boston Globe

When we finally do take it upon ourselves to enter Iraq, (and believe me, we will eventually) we'd better all just kiss our collective asses goodbye.

It will be the surest trigger to someone or some country to launch a major attack on the US to teach us a lesson.

Americans didn't seem to get that idea from last September. It wasn't some mental deficient intent on causing meyham just for the enjoyment of it. This was an organized movement of people, with no intention of a prolonged attack. Repeated attacks would have meant they were interested in outright destruction in this country. Don't believe it was our security that prevented such attacks from happening. As I've said here before, even here in the heart of the country, no one in power knew how to respond immediatly after the attacks, or even for days.

Those attacks were a message. The US has been behaving as an imperial force for better than a hundred years now. We justify our foriegn military assaults and occupations for economic reasons by declaring the need to spread our morality. I for one have never heard God/Allah/Jehova telling me to go forth and convert yon savages.

We armed Iran to fight our enemies. We armed Iraq to fight our enemies. We armed central american drug manufacturers to fight our enemies. We armed Afghanastan to fight our enemies.

Maybe if we stopped being the world's arm supplier, these people would stop stabbing us in the back. We're only lucky that the biggest countries on the planet have always been our enemies, or else we would really be sorry for arming them.

We have a Shrub in the Oval Office who is drawing lines in the sand and taunting the enemy. He is the worst possible person to be in office right now. His very nature is being a business man. And a bad one at that. Every decision he makes is based on a business point of view. He has neither the historical perspective nor the national morality to truley inspire his own people, much less the global audience.

He will get me killed. When we get bitch-slapped, it will be close to home. But don't worry... you can be sure he won't be in town that day.

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The Shrub, the man of perpetual vacations, is leaving on another. He plans to spend a month on his ranch. Does anyone wish to start a pool now on how soon we send forces into Iraq?