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I was listening to Radio Pacifica this morning.

By June, we will quite possibly have bombed Iran. There will have been so serious diplomacy. We want regime change becasue we will not forget the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 and we will not accept a theocracy in an oil rich country that is not friendly to us. Neo-conservatives have co-opted the Congress and there is no way that we as citizens could stop the war-mongers from pushing forward their global militaristic adventure. A constant threat of terrorism abroad will stupify the American public into passively accepting the devestating domestic agenda that Bush & Co. are tring to enact. 'War is Peace.' Lawmakers are hog-tied, because any vote against the Patriot Act (which gave Bush sweeping powers to move against any defined enemy and disregard for the Constitution) would by defenition be unpatriotic. They dont understand Iran, they dont understand what the outcome will be, how complex the issues are...just as they did not understand or prepare for it in Iraq. And the American public will stand dumbly by as we recklessly devestate another people, and make the world less safe and less peaceful. Almost all of George Bush's cabinet have ties to the defense industry. They make money off guns, wars, contracts, nuclear energy-- violence.

Who will regard the character of our times? Who will smell what is in the air, and PROPHESY?