with you there to help me

music: Jethro Tull's album, "Benefit" (1969?)

Every day there's someone asking, "what is there to do?
Should I love, or should I fight? Is it all the same to you?"
No, I say, I have the answer, proven to be true;
But if I were to share it with you, you would stand to gain
and I to lose!
- Jethro Tull, "Nothing to Say"

Dubya and the Lost Boys are up to their shenanigans again. There's a surprise.

An audio tape was released, purported to be the voice of Osama bin Laden; our "brave" chickenhawks claim that it provides firm evidence that Al-Qaeda and Iraq are in cahoots. It does nothing of the sort! What it does is provide clear evidence that Al-Qaeda will not sit by quietly if we attack Iraq.

The tape in question clearly identifies Saddam Hussein as an Infidel. It also condemns his regime as Socialist - a clear slap in the face, after the oppression Afghanistan suffered at the hands of the (Socialist) Soviet Union.

No, the bin Laden tape offers support for the Iraqi people in the event of an attack by Western (i.e. U.S.) forces. It neither explicitly states nor even obliquely implies that there has ever been a political or business relationship between Iraq and the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. It does not promise Saddam virgins in heaven.

Let's face it - Saddam is a reviled hedonist heathen throughout the fundamentalist Muslim world, and he garners no respect from his Muslim brethren except when he is put upon by some foreign power seen as even less Muslim than he is.

On the home front, I suppose I can see the pre-emptive wisdom of deploying antiaircraft missiles around Washington DC. Assuming, of course, the Feds aren't blowing smoke up our asses. Which would not surprise me. This administration has demonstrated such an interest in covering its collective ass that I wouldn't put it past them to pull such a stunt.

My ex-wife is so put out by the whole Homeland Insecurity fiasco that she already has plenty of survival equipment ready to go; she's very capable in that area anyway. She's been a primitive camper for over 20 years, she hunts (and guts her own game, folks). The problem is that she lives in NY state - hundreds of miles from NYC, but still there are nuclear power plants, army and air force bases, former and current ammo dumps, and high-tech manufacturing centers within 50 miles or so. She's ready to head for the hills, and is especially worried that some sort of invasion will come across the border from Canada, which is less than 100 miles away. But, the hills are close. It won't be hard to disappear if need be, and she'd be able to survive.

We're all hoping it won't come to that. Unfortunately we have Mr. Psycho Killer sitting in the Oval Office, so it's more likely than it should be.

And my kids will be eligible for the draft around the time he's up for re-election. Please, Lord, let the American people see the light and get this madman out of our lives before it's too late.

The word is Impeach, and the time is Now.