If Bush nukes Iran or Syria, will we sit idly by and let him keep power?

[benburch]

Are we going to wring our hands and wish for '06?

Are we gonna vote in some online poll that nobody reads anyway?

Are we gonna send a letter to a congressman who is either in Bush's camp or so afraid of him that he or she can hardly spit?

Are we gonna put another bumpersticker on the car?

Or will we find some more effective means of removing Bush from office?

Personally, I believe that the average Democrat, and indeed, the average online Democrat will never do anything effective even if he starts WW-III.

[wtmusic]

1. Count me in

whatever more effective means.

[Nikki Stone 1]

2. What would you suggest?

?

[benburch]

It would be unwise to suggest anything...

that might be construed as seditious, clearly.

IF this happens, a General Strike is the minimum we should do. Stop the wheels of the country.

[eleny]

3. I don't think that's what he'll announce on Thursday

There's been that talk about 50k Iraqi troops being ready. So, my guess is that he'll announce a pullout of 50k U.S. troops. That move is to deal with Sept. 24th. Coming on the heels of his accepting responsibility for the Katrina mess will garner him better polling numbers. He'll bide his time before invading Iran. Those 50k U.S. soldiers will need a little bit of R&R first.

[H5N1]

4. we are going to wear out our shoes marching... and do nothing

unless we find a leader to rally around

[atomic-fly]

5. Reading "The New Pearl Harbor"

If any of this stuff is accurate, then we are in a world of trouble.
There are so many connections and conspiracies that go well beyond Bush.
I have a feeling something much more sinnister is at play. What will happen with all of this? I'm afraid it will take something drastic to wake people up.

[H5N1]

6. I truly fear that you are right

[txaslftist]

7. Well, doesn't congress have to okay this sort of thing?

I don't think they will, not even the pukes, what with Shrub sitting in the 30s and 40s.

No. To get the Iran/Syria thing going Shrub (more likely Rummy) has to engineer an attack on our servicemen in Iraq that can be credibly (or even bogusly, so long as the fraud isn't detected immediately) tied to one of their governments. Then our war against Iran and or Syria will be "self-defense" and will be "necessary".

I think they have to get their boy Osama and his crew to plant a nuke or extremely high yield bomb near a sizable collection of US troops, and credibly link the attack to Iran.

I used to take it for granted that Osama was not still CIA, but had gone rogue. After four years of not even trying to catch him, I'm getting ready to put on the tin hat and say he's a Bush agent provocateur.

[benburch]

8. Nope!

The president can order anything he wants now. The Constitution be damned.

He was bombing the shit out of Iraq for MONTHS before the congress was ever consulted.