Sitting here, potentially on the eve of a war, I'm reminded yet again about how frickin' fragile life is. I'm suffering from a head cold that's progressively getting worse. Reminding me about how easy it is for stupid, lifeless viruses to completely screw up a body for quite some time.
Everyone is pretty much scared out of their wits right now from what I can tell. I can see it in a lot of faces of people today. The reality that this Administration is going to war no matter what anyone says.... The shear fear of what's going to happen to us here when the bombs start dropping over there. I don't think anyone really noticed that the terror alert went back to piss yellow. From my point of view, if the alert level really means anything, I think it's getting more likely rather than less likely.
Something Daniel Ellsberg said when I was listening to him being interviewed on that commie liberal Saddam coddling public radio station a couple of months ago got jogged back into the front of my mind again.
He said that things like troop movements, battle plans, war plans - these are not the most secret things. The things that are the most secret, the things that are the most closely held information that no one divulges is that there are alternatives to what the Administration's current plan of action is.
Thus, I'm convinced that the entire world pretty much knows precisely when we'll start dropping bombs. That's not a real secret. Al Qaeda and all the other "lone terrorists" probably have their marching orders by now and know exactly when they should start doing whatever horrible deed they're going to do. I just hope our FBI, CIA and local police are as on the ball as we all hope they are and catch these lunatics before they do any real damage. Really.
You know. Even though I think that it would probably ensure a Bush administration well into the next century, I hope with all my heart that everything goes exactly as they are claiming and absolutely none of the predictions people like me have been making of the incredible mess likely to result from this war happens at all.
Seriously.
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