More Caution Required

Just finished reading

"THE PRESIDENT'S CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST TERRORISTS AND NATIONS SUPPORTING THEM",

an opinion by JOHN C. YOO, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel.

If Yoo is correct in his conclusions, it means that the president can damn well do anything he wants, attack anybody he wants, whenever he wants. All he need do is claim that it is in the defence of the nation from attack--or potential attack--by terrorists.

Well now.

Bush obviously accepts Yoo's intrepretation as accurate and legal, and that just about guarantees that Bush will indeed launch a massive air assault (no invasion, just like he says) on Iran before he leaves office.

Several of our senior Generals and Admirals have just publicly accounced they will resign before obeying a Bush order to attack Iran, a move they consider to be rash, foolish and militarily unsupportable, stretched as we are.

It now appears to only way to prevent Bush from starting yet another war in the Middle East is to remove him and his shadowy master Cheney from office(quickly) before they get the chance to bury us even deeper in this eternal war between conflicting religions.

Of course, that will leave us with Nancy Pelosi as president, but just for a few months. That way we can watch and decide if we really want a woman such as Clinton as president.

The real lesson here is that we really need to get a lot smarter when choosing our next president. So far we've been pretty damned stupid with our selections.