Originally Posted by Paul Waters

It seems more and more like civil war is immenent.

When Americans want their troops to come home, Rumsfeld says more troops must be deployed in Bagdad.

Congressman and Governors up for re-election in November must be ####ting bricks.

And then there is Iran, North Korea, ambivalent Europe, pissed off Russia ("Chaney talks as well as he shoots," Putin), uncooperative China. An impotent Blair in Britain.

Massive federal budget deficits, massive trade deficits, hugs debt to China and Japan, outsourcing of the middle class, and very high oil prices.

I felt safer in the cold war of the 1970's.