How to Survive at the Pentagon on $2 Billion a Day

While many hate our current wars and our war chief, it surprises me when they spout their trust in some other war chief.

While the Bush-Cheney administration is the most dangerous of our lifetimes -- and ousting Republicans from the White House is imperative -- such truths are apt to smooth the way for progressive evasions. We hear that 'the people must take back the government,' but how can 'the people' take back what they never really had? And when rhetoric calls for 'returning to a foreign policy based on human rights and democracy,' we're encouraged to be nostalgic for good old days that never existed.

The warfare state didn't suddenly arrive in 2001, and it won't disappear when the current lunatic in the Oval Office moves on.

Only lunatics can become President. Only a lunatic would want to be in charge of the world's largest nuclear arsenal while presiding over a country where there are constituents who actually encourage the use of such weapons.