The Stuff True Statesmen are Made of

The "fraidy-cat" news media manages to proliferate the Rightees' talking points instead of looking at the correct viewpoint of our Constitution. For example; instead of underscoring the phony ideas of the Repupican talking points such as "Nancy Pelosi----has no business----talking to the leaders of other nations." They ought to be studying our Consitution and understanding the fact that Congress is on an equal footing as the Administration.
What Nancy Pelosi, fully elected Speaker of the House and second-in-line for the Presidency has accomplished in foreign relations, is what Bush and Cheney and Condoleeza have failed to do.
I have never known an administration which threatens, ignores and attacks sovereign countries the way the Bush administration does. Either they have no concept of the meaning of diplomacy, or else talking to other world leaders would upset their own personal agenda.
Pelosi, as the most definitely elected leader has every right to go into Syria or any other nation which is teatering on the brink of turning against America. Her intentions are noble ones, unlike the Iran-Contra debaucle in which Reagan and Cheney and Bush conspired to detain our American hostages in Iran until AFTER the presidential election. Did they forget that Reagan was not even a member of congress back then ? Yet these three scoundrels overstepped Jimmy Carter's predicency and took it upon themselves to deal with the issue.
God bless Nancy Pelosi. Congress needs more statesmen/women like her.

ORIGINAL POEM WRITTEN ON THE EVE OF OUR NIGHTMARE IN 2000.

THIS IS THE WAY DEMOCRACY DIES
An original poem by voisovrsn.
(With apologies to whomever wrote "This is the Way the World Ends"

This is the way Democracy dies---
not with a bomb, but a coup---
secretly snaked in a covert chain
burying Truth and bending the brain,
Conspiring to kill, the People's Will.

Shunning the Law and the Constitution,
transmuiting the Framers' intent
Bound together in gross mutation
Siamese Branches of Government bent
To paralyze a long-proud Nation. (written January, 2000)

THIS IS THE WAY DEMOCRACY DIES
An original poem by voisovrsn.
(With apologies to whomever wrote "This is the Way the World Ends"

This is the way Democracy dies---
not with a bomb, but a coup---
secretly snaked in a covert chain
burying Truth and bending the brain,
Conspiring to kill, the People's Will.

Shunning the Law and the Constitution,
transmuiting the Framers' intent
Bound together in gross mutation
Siamese Branches of Government bent
To paralyze a long-proud Nation. (written January, 2000)

Whatever stokes your stack

Approximately, six years ago, I bought my first computer. It opened a world of possibilities for me. That year, Clinton was in his last days as our president. Very few of us had any idea of what would be coming down the pike; a flawed election in which the Supreme Court would step in and decide the outcome for the People of this great country.
Anyone who took an interest is these cataclysmic happenings may have seen it coming; a very corrupt government which would take the truth and, with the help of the popular news media, distort , conceal and twist facts. At the same time, presenting the Bush administration's propoganda as facts cut in stone.
I watched in silent horror as it all unfolded. I couldn't believe how rabidly the people bought into the lies spurred on by the attack on the World Trade Center, the Bush administration made quick headway with their lies.
I watched the United Nations televised on C-Span. I heard Bush arrogantly screaming at them and with a ghastly light on his presence made it seem like a horror movie. I watched as Colin Powel displayed what appeared to be retouched photos and maps of where he believed the
weapons of mass destruction were. Condoleeza Rice capped off the simulated nightmare with her prattle about "mushroom clouds".
Later on, as the smoke of shock from all this began to clear, and stronger minds began to work , we began to realize just how easily we were lead into the dark cave by an administration more foul than I could have imagined.
But , if some people were aware of the stakes for these insane neocons who stopped at nothing to dupe, impair and rape our country, most Americans were not. Most had very little interest in the impact of criminal seizure of our country, its armies and its resources.
Now , we struggle to fix what they have done to America; using propaganda and fear, they have wiped out our principles, our reason and our resources. Amazingly, a small proportion (thank God), are still living in unreality; still believing that the Bush regime has some hidden magical plan which will pull us out of this abominable predictament.

Question: When is War Warranted?

I want your thoughts on the question; "When is War Warranted?" Please post your answers . I am looking for all types of answers; serious ones, funny ones etc, etc. I shall use your ideas as fodder for cartoons.

War

Ever since humans have existed, they have wrought havoc upon one another. War in itself, is not a bad thing. Just as a gun is not. There are many times when both are necessary. I invite you to give your opinions, questions and ideas. My first subject is, (as you can see) , War. Tell us what you think of War.