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eeevil conservative: I REFUSE to allow the media or Satan trapse around this country UNCHALLENGED!

rodguy911: ...the dems are getting closer and closer to those that we fight in Iraq.

Sadly, the situation has now deteriorated to the point described by the two, excellent comments quoted above. And I have even found it necessary to argue with Libertarians etc. who constantly want to decry the lack of a formal declaration of war and so on as grounds for questioning the Administration's efforts to protect this nation.

We, as a nation, may not now be governable in a fashion that provides for the common defense. The question of whether the country can ever be brought together prior to another and even more devastating attack on the homeland is looming larger and larger. The coming midterm elections will shed a great deal of light on this matter, the gravest dilemma of my soon to be six plus decades as a citizen of the Republic.

Many respected historians, which I am sure is not news to the informed members of FR, have opined that the only truly united period of the American experience was from 1941 to 1945. It is difficult for me to disagree; either we get it together ourselves, and very soon, or our enemies will do the job for us.

I recently asked an acquaintance, who is sitting out the election based on perceived threats to his civil liberties, if he would still be expressing pleasure at the Patriot Act's etc. elimination while he was standing in the radioactive rubble of his former residence. I am beating this drum everywhere at every opportunity.

Good for you PerConPat, many of us do so as well.

Sometimes I am glad I too have experienced those 6 decades as well but fear for my family that hasn't.

I guess that we take so many things for granted in the US that the mentality of "it could never happen here" just overwhelms some to the point of caving into near anything.

Not I.

I have traveled and seen what tyranny can bring, I want no part of it.