Dave Lindorff: Growing Fears of a U.S. Attack on Iran, and an Easy Way to Stop It

I disagree with you on this point, the 2000 election was "decided" by supreme court justices chosen by Bush the elder, they owed
their jobs to the bush cartel.

the questions surrounding the 2004 election are too numerous to go into, but the diebold computers get special mention on how to rig
elections.

Last but not least, all candidates are corporately vetted before they are chosen to receive enormous contributions and media support - we the people - are completely left out of this equation.

Any candidate that appeals to the public (Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Paul Wellstone, Ron Paul) are marginalized, swiftboated and even assassinated.

Which means that we see to it that Congress revokes the 2001 AUMF and we not only prevent a war, we change the world.

too many brain dead, methed,coked out to give a zhit from sea to shining sea

As a life-long independent, it is not out of my realm of thought to consider that Dems can be as evil as the ReThugs. They are all just people; capable of just about anything. Of course "just about anything" also means great acts courage and having faith in one's own mind, at least enough to break away from the herd.

I lean toward the Dems for the simple reason that they don't scare me. The Republicans always have.

But I must admit they are scarying the crap out of me now. Daily, I ask myself if they have all lost their minds. Did someone put something in the water suppl
Hillary y? They just go on with politics as usual, as if nothing has changed. The media reports what they report, as if nothing happened.

When I think how long most of us have known that Bushco were lying out their arses every damn day about everything from the election of 2000 to the Iran war plan of today, it makes me want to bash my head against a wall, but then I realize that's exactly what we have all been doing on a psychic level for years now.

Lindorff is right. Congress can stop this PNAC wet dream right now if they want to. They show no sign of doing it, or even contemplating such a thing.

So, what can we do? I do know that the first thing we absolutely must do is let go of all the illusion we have that we live a a democracy. We haven't had even representative democracy in a very long time. Now, our Republic is crumbling as well. Chances are excellent that we, the people, are going to be the ones who will have to re-build it. Our leaders can't or won't even admit there is a problem. We can't even begin to solve the problem if we are still delusional enough to go along with politics as usual.

A few thousand people protesting, with permission at that, is a huge waste of time and energy, if it is meant to change Bush's insane policy. My generation got clubbed, jailed and killed. Some of the devices for crowd control they have today would make us welcome death. So, what's left?

Another illusion that has to go? "We are a nation under law." Anyone who actually believes that anymore is as a lamb led to slaughter. Either the law applies to all of us, or it applies to none of us.

I am not suggesting anarchy. What I am suggesting is civil disobedience and non-compliance. To the degree we continue to obey Bush when he tells us to mindlessly shop and travel for Uncle Sam and Old Glory, we are as guilty as Bush and Cheney. We don't have to wait patiently for election day to vote. There is a far more powerful way to vote every day. Change your behavior.

Don't we all feel like rats in a Skinner box by now? Anyone who doesn't needs to read Greenspan's book. We talk about cconsumerism if it is a bad word, and yet it is the single greatest power we have and it is one of the easiest to exert. So far, it isn't illegal.

Spend less before you have nothing left to spend.

Not all corporations are evil incarnate. Do a little research. Find out which businesses you want to support and which you don't.

Above all else, think of gasoline as poison. Use no more than necessary to meet the needs of life, not the wants.As long as we, the people, are willing to pay outrageous prices for gasoline, the prices will go up. That's capitalism. Whatever the market will bear. Stop bearing it, to the degree that you can.

This is a great time to teach the kids about true sacrifice, before they are old enough to be made to sacrifice their lives.

Economic chaos lies just around the corner. We might as well get used to poverty because a vast majority will be living in it very soon.

Screw taxes. Junior is right about one thing. We, the people, know better how to spend our money, especially when he and Cheney seem hell bent on spending it on nothing but death and destruction, than the federal government does. I would rather my tax money go to care for the elderly, disabled and children, to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, for education from cradle to grave, for healthcare for all...there are so many things that need to be done and none of them involve bloodletting and that's exactly where my tax money has gone since October 2002, when it became clear to me what was about to happen. War tax resistance is probably as old as income tax itself. Doing it for me came easy because making the decision wasn't a political one, but a spiritual one. I wanted no part of the crime that was about to be committed. It doesn't get much worse than a war of aggression and all of the war crimes that are bound to follow.

As Americans we have to decide what we are willing to do to wash the blood from our hands, start a movement and let the middle men and women in Washington know what we intend to do. In short, we will crash the whole damn system. We have to. We all know it on some level. The system is too corrupt to fix itself.

The word "empire" has no place in a Democratic Republic. The Empire must go, like a horrible malignancy, if a healthy USA can ever be hoped for again.

As far as the candidates go, the most feared by America Inc. is John Edwards.

Think about it. Rudy G is probably the most amoral piece of humanity we have ever had run for president, yet the media mouths cannot go a day without mentioning Edwards' $400.00 haircut. That's how one knows who the money-whoring, bottom-line feeders do not want us to have as a choice. Just see who the media starts picking on about stupid stuff early on, while they ignore a candidate's possible personal ties to the mob.

Hillary is really not the exception to the rule she seems to be. The more they bash her the better it is for her. Decent people, who do not hate the woman, feel for her, even protective of her.