I agree with you that the period from now until the '08 election is an extremely perilous one for Americans, the US nation and the world as a whole.
Given the "by hook or crook" modus operandi of the current administration anything that furthers their objectives could take place.
I'm particularly concerned about George W. Bush himself, because I think that the people controlling the administration agenda get the biggest bang
for their buck out of a scenario where something very bad happens to W. personally. If that bad something can be "proven" to have been committed by
Lee Harvey Mohammed, Iranian student, living in the US on visa, then we get Cheney as president, and very probably an Iranian war.
If Cheney then wins the '08 election, the mideast oil gang bang carries on at great peril to everyone. For some weird (read sane) reason, Russia
doesn't like what the US is doing. Even if the Dems win in '08, they will simply pick up where the GOP leaves off in foreign policy. The public
posture might be nicer but the fundamentals will stay the same.
You just have to look at the history of the Vietnam war through all administrations. The US is not going to leave Iraq, for instance, until they are
pushed into the green zone and flying the last CIA agents off the embassy roof by helicopter and it doesn't matter who is sitting in the Oval
Office.
These are bad times and short of a major disruption in the US at the grass roots level, I mean millions of bodies in the streets, there is nothing
that can be done about it.
[edit on 8-8-2007 by ipsedixit]

