If/when Chimpy orders the strike on Iran w/o Congressional approval

who is going to stop him? It was suggested that the Pentagon could intervene or refuse the order, but who within the Pentagon is not a puppet of the BushCo regime? Is our only recourse to continue to write e-mails and letters to our Congress-critters?

We, as a people, what are our options? It feels like we have already made the commitment to attack Iran.

The survivalist I love hand guns faction of DU could take a couple dozen busloads of heat packing militia to violently overthrow the current government for us.

Only as long as we know damn well the founding fathers would be proud of us, however.

-85% jimmy

a 20mm cannon mounted in an A-10 will do to a bus?

This packer ain't going out that way.

As Sam Elliot said in We Were Soldiers, "Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves!"

People who want others to fight their battles for them remind me of someone, lets see, who does that sound like.

to be hearing from me even more than they already are.

Some of us have been demanding it of our congresscritters already. The question is, who in Congress has the cojones to bring it up?

and yet it feels that the steamrolling continues unhindered. I'm sick and tired of this cabal's agenda being stuffed down our throats.

for 3 simple reasons:

1) it will be politically imprudent to mount any directed opposition, as the attack will come in the wake of "startling new discoveries of Iranian terrorist activities and nuclear arms proliferation"

2) there is currently no constitutional mechanism for doing so, and we don't have enough principled people in congress to get even a non-binding resolution voicing mild criticisms of current policies through the senate, let alone bring the hammer down in a legally-proscriptive manner on the executive branch

3) in the absence of political and legal solutions, that leaves the apolitical and illegal: revolutions, tax resistance, general strikes, refusal to mobilize by the military, and so on. however, in the wake of the intense propaganda campaign that necessarily precedes the strikes against Iran, relatively few Americans will see the Iranian people as being worth sacrificing life or liberty to protect

There will be protests as usual. People will march in the streets and have public peace vigils as usual. Occasional riots will erupt, and be suppressed as usual by the police as usual. Bush will ignore, as usual. Democracy, as we like to call it, or business as usual.

The best time to stop bush was in November 2000. We had a second chance in 2004. Now there's no stopping him whatsoever; he's the decider until he leaves office.

"The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote."

I suppose that the reality of the scenario just described is largely responsible for the lack of responses. Our isolation is nearly complete. Unbelievable that our eco-centrism and apathy is so pervasive as to allow this course of events. :cry: