Someday this war will be over. What will I have to rant about then?
China! China holds the key to ending the war in Iraq. Without China how can the borrow-and-spend republicans operate? If the American taxpayers were presented with a bill for the true cost of this mess, the demand for an end to the occupation would be overwhelming. Knowing this, the politicians in washington hide the true cost of the war and borrow the money. Paybacks are hell. Interest payments alone will soon criple the U.S. government. How ironic will it be that a communist country was able to beat down a capitalist empire at their own game. The republicans must really hate America, look at what they're doing to it!
China could stop this war if it wanted to. Just cut off the money. Maybe they enjoy seeing imperialist yankees destroy themselves. That is why they are such enablers. Every day they watch the foolish yankee get weaker, but the day will come when they are no longer amused. That day will mark the begining of the end. Not just the end of the war but the end of the government's ability to function and the economy as we know it.
If we Americans are lucky, the president will be impeached and the war will be stopped without the economic collapse. However the malicious politicians in washington are likely to take the entire country down with them. The will of the American people means nothing to them and the future of America means even less. Americans are now dependent upon the kindness of foreigners that buy Treasury Bills. America needs some tough love from our enablers. If China and Japan were to stop lending the U.S. government money, reality would then set in.
If Cindy Sheehan really wanted to stop the war, she should go talk to the Premier of China. He will not be afraid of her.

Has anyone noticed that every time president bush is presented with the oppourtunity, he will propose the need for the military to be given vast powers in dealing with domestic situations that are either real or imagined, such as hurricanes of the avain flu. Now just what is the GOP game plan here? Will there be a convenient situation, either real or imagined, around election time next year, that the administration can use as an excuse for the military to impose a curfew or a quarantine? Although the Congress has not declared war, bush has declared himself to be war president. This stance is being taken not to protect the country but to protect himself. The constitution states that only congress may declare war and likewise congress may declare a war to be over. This is the root cause of the quagmire in Iraq. If the congress had the moral backbone to do the right thing to begin with, the American people (acting through their representives) would not have lost control of the war. Had congress actually declared war it would now be able to claim that the aims of the war(the search for weapons of mass destruction)had been achieved and thus declare an end to it. This leaves us with the REAL reason for the war, which is a power grab by the president. There is no peace treaty that can put an end to a power grab. Power addicts desire a bigger and bigger fix, and if a suitable crisis cannot provide an excuse for a larger power grab, they will manufacture one.