Now we have a situation where many of us feel Americans are great people but their present government sucks big time.

When the bombing starts, however, people and gov't will be lumped together on the grounds that, in the world's most acclaimed democracy, Bush couldn't go to war if the majority didn't want it.

Would this be a fair assessment? Could Americans do anything besides protest marching to stop Bush? Like shutting down the country as the Venezuelans have done? Or don't they want to?

I don't think we could shut down the country even if we wanted to. And if we did, I don't think that would prevent war on Iraq. All that would be needed to bring the people of the US back into compliance would be another "terrorist" attack on US soil. But it might be a little bit less easy for the US government to wage war on Iraq if they weren't getting so much help and moral support from Tony Blair and the British government.