Isn't it obvious that the only reality here is Karl Rove and the Republicans need to win another 4 (8, 12, 16, 20) years of Pennsylvania Power?

While Joe is totally right in all his rational arguments against US military action in Iran, the Republicans don't care about reason, they only care about winning in '08.

Dubya's crummy polls and the meltdown of the Republican hegemony in congress have got the right-wingers scared. The politicos are thinking that if it takes a few thousand American lives and the threat of terrorism and higher prices at the pump to keep the voting public from going Democratic, hey, isn't it worth it.

The Republicans have a vision for this country. Think Stalin, Goebbels, Pol Pot. Let's not spoil it by thinking when we vote.

It would be tragic if Congress went along with the the White House without hearings and a ban on any warlike acts against Iran until all the charges can be investigated fully! We've been down this road before with devastating results. All the president's claims were lies last time, it's unlikely they will they be different this time.

If it turns out that these new ugly incitements to war are as false this time as the last, the war criminals in the Executive Office should be arrested and sent to the Hague for trial. They are responsible for the deaths of over 1 million innocent Iraqis and the forced migration of four million. That is genocide and ethnic cleansing. Iran is bigger and better armed than Iraq...it has not attacked us, and we have no claim to her land or mineral wealth. It is time to remove this Caeser of ours from high office. That will be a true Patriot Act.

Luise Light, Ed.D.

Bellows Falls, VT