How could we have known?

And yet, they told us they knew exactly what would happen every step of the way, didn't they?

It was Bush and Cheney who said they knew for a fact that Saddam had a nuclear bomb or was days away from creating one and exploding it in New York -- they didn't hedge their bets or say the intel could go either way. Nope. Either we gave them unchecked total dictatorial powers equal to or surpasses those of Saddam (and other tyrants) or we would all die slow and bloody deaths.

It was Cheney who said that we'd be greeted as liberators and the war would only cost a few million -- he didn't shrug his shoulders and say that is was just his personal opinion or that his critics might have an equally valid point. Nope. He was notified by Jesus Himself that victory would be swift, cheap and instantaneous.

Oh. And he also mentioned, in passing, that any who didn't want to commit every single military resource we had (as well as 100 trillion dollars) to helping these poor helpless Iraqis was obviously a Communist and someone that hated not only America, but all Chistianity as well.

The plan is so bold (to publically call anyone who disagrees with your military strategy a coward, communist and Jesus-hater) that it had never been tried before. Who would have the guts to say something so insane? And yet, we must credit Bush and his team for having the courage to try something that others had wanted to do, but were afraid would blow up in their faces. Breaking the law and telling lies straight to the face of the American people while simultaneously calling anyone who objects to your lies, law-breaking and FAILURES Jesus-haters and communists is by anyone's definition a gutsy move full of obvious risks for backlash.

Should this be the new Democratic strategy?

Should we call anyone who opposes univeral healthcare coverage Jesus-haters and idiots?

How easy would that be to parade out poor people with serious illnesses who can't afford the chemo they need (or have literally become homeless PAYING for the privlidge of not dying of cancer) and have them look into the cameras and call the Republicans monsters, psychopaths, money-hungry financial terrorists that are letting little children die?

You're telling me THAT wouldn't work? Of course it would. We'd have universal healthcare in one year if we did that.

Instead of condemning Bush's strategy, we should be employing it for good.

...be careful that you do not become a monster.

You cannot do EXACTLY what the "evil-doers" have done and still call yourself a hero. You cannot burn prisoners (who generally turn out to be innocent) with cigars and beat them with baseball bats and still call yourself a Christian superhero that is making the world safe from "evil-doers" who do not obey the rule of law and torture innocent prisoners.

Saddam rounded up innocent people and tortured them.

The US is rounding up innocent people and torturing them.

What, pray tell, is the difference between Geroge W. Bush ordering the torture of random civilians and Saddam ordering the torture of random civilians???

I drive 15 miles round trip to work Monday thru Friday -- I would have looooved an electric car and would have paid through the nose to own an EV1.

I think any common-sense person knows that the auto makers and oil companies hate the electric car and did literally everything in their power to kill it -- knowing full well they were going against the outright demands of the majority of American citizens. Bill ford and the rest just shrugged, smirked and continued to destroy America 9and the consumers) while whistling and conting their millions.

One of the things that always confused me about the "I HATE Electric cars!" crowd is why they hate it so much?

Wouldn't an electric car be the absolute perfect SECOND car for a family with a stay at home parent that doesn,'t commute 500 miles a day? What about retired people? What about college students? Or even high school students? The concept of an electric car that can can "only" travel 100 miles between charges seems like the perfect car for students, stay at home parents, people who work in home offices, retired people, etc. But we all know there are people who foam at the mouth an insist that 99% of all Americans drive over 400 miles a day and, for that reason, the electric car is evil and a tool of the devil.

Also, the whole arguement that a non-polluting electric car is just as bad (or worse) environmentally than a gasoline car! You create waste generating energy for BOTH the electric car and the gasoline car, but only the gasoline car creates waste a SECOND time by spewing out millions of tons of carbon dixoide. The electric cars has no secondary toxic emmisions and the batteries themselves have less devastating enviromental impact than those pesky greehouse gasses, don't they?

Have you ever sat behind a school bus in traffic? Ever seen the think black exhaust spewing out? And the smell? You don't need two Phd's to know that stuff is cancer causing and toxic, yet there's our children riding around in those buses and inhaling that stuff every morning and every afternoon. Wouldn't an electric school bus (or heck, even bio-diesel!) be better?