His latest BRight Idea is to have the Pentagon take charge of national disasters.

This of course flies right into the teeth of a long tradition of not using the military on internal problems, which Bush in his short-sighted and under-educated miasma is more than willing to ignore. He may not have noticed that when national governments start deploying military forces inside the nation, it increases the risk of fascist control and suppression of civil rights. On the other hand, these are two things that appear to be under Bush's gang's list of "summum bonum" virtues.

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