artbrooks, the US military has already been used against the US citizenry, despite it being illegal. Remember Wounded Knee 1973?

And of course, it doesn't have to officially be the military. Remember Waco?

I don't have any confidence the current military, with the current commander in chief, would refuse orders from him. If Bush ordered the National Guard out to attack the US citizenry, regardless of the reason, the Guard would most certainly follow those orders.