The Inexorable Force vs. Jello!

What is troubling is that our only form of checks and balances in matters of war is congress and they seem to have ceded their powers to the president. In effect, we are left with paralysis.

Look back, if you have the stomach for it.

They were inclined to believe what the president told them--even though people like me could see right through their arguments, they persisted and now claim they made a mistake.

The question remains: Why could the common man see through the facade of Bush's intentions and the Congress could not. Were they too eager to please? And was that attributable to our subsequent downfall?
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Parallels with Rome?

What next?

The invasion of Persia?


Look at the track record, man. Don't we understand by now how this cabal operates.

Their position has never shifted; their moves have always been predictable.

Why is it then so hard to see where this is headed.

To their minds, it may be the strategum of the day, the one they are used to to defer criticism away from themselves in the murky tactics of War.

And what might we do?

Twiddle our thumbs again?

Where are the tactics. We are now forewarned and supposedly forearmed.

There are no more excuses.

But we all know what will happen. They will invade Iraq. I am convinced now of that.

And they will spin it and Congress will sit around debating the "rightness" or "wrongness" of it.

Would a British Parliament do likewise? Would they not excoriate the Prime Minister for such actions and deny him a vote of confidence.

The next best question is what do you do with a democracy that no longer engages the people enough to want to maintain it.

Ah, the question de jour!

Les Aaron