Feel better, GUEST? I think you are giving to much credit to the U.N. as a world governing body and not enough focus on Boss GWB Hog who really is the madman here.

Whereas we have disagreed in the past on the active role that the GWB played in 9/11 I'm do believe that he did play a *passave* role in allowing it to occur. The fact that the only non military aircraft that flew over US soil on 9/12 was a Saudi airliner collecting some of Bin Laden's relatives for protection, I think is tellling evidence.

And I agree that on paper it looks very much like GWB would like very much to end Jefferson's little expierment and may actually pull it off.

But I don't think a Bush slam dunk victory is chizzeled in stone. Yes, he has certainly messed up more stuff in a short period of time than we thought he was capable of messing up but I think he may not get the right combination of nationalism and events to fall in place for him to call off the '04 elections. Yes, I know that irregardless of who wins what in Congress, that Bush will be re-selected because he will be balancing two or three wars and voters don't like changing Presidents in the middle of such, BUT, it is my hope that someone will come out from the woodwork, call Bush for the crook he is, capture the imagination of the voters who have given up on democracy and carry 10% of the vote for the Green Party.

But this won't happen if there isn't that person. But I have a feeling that over the next year, we will slowly see the emergence of a new voice of reason coming out. Of course there is always the scenerio where the right wing does with this emerging figure what it did to the Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King but I am still of the niave opinion that they wouldn't dare do it again. If I'm wrong, GUEST, then your scenerio may actually come to pass as Bush declares martial law in Jnauary of '05 and the rest will just have tomplay itself out in an America that is hard to fathom today...

Hey, history does tend to repeat itself, sadly enough...

Bobert