is the US sliding into Fascism? Evidence for and against

My opinion, based on nothing but common sense and speculation, is that Iraq has definitely had limited weapons of mass destruction and that these weapons have drifted out into the general sympathetic militia in that region. The war that is being fought is viewed much differently for the Islamic Jihad sympathizers than it is for the typical U.S. liberal. (Not that I support a conservative theocracy, mind you)The fact is that there will be another 9-11 type of a day coming up on the horizon. This day is either going to be catastrophic or it will be disrupted by our forces, yet still rather severe. It will show that the theory of WMD was justified in principal.The weapons are out there. Our challenge, as Americans, is to use every means that we have to eliminate the major concentrations of power that support the Jihad militia. Secondarily, we must be humane enough that our enemy gives up the senseless ideology of destruction that has been brainwashed into their minds.This message has been edited by Phatboy, 05-12-2005 07:58 AM

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"It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle."
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"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."
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"People are prepared for everything except for the fact that beyond the darkness of their blindness there is a great light. They are prepared to go on breaking their backs plowing the same old field until the cows come home without seeing, until they stub their toes on it, that there is a treasure buried in that field rich enough to buy Texas. They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb".Frederick Buechner

I agree with the facts. WMD have never been found. Iraq never had the money or the time to mass produce the WMD. The motive and the means was still there, however. In all probability, there are WMD in the hands of Jihad rogues as we speak. Knowing that once they use such weapons, the war against them will only intensify, my speculation is that there is a certain time planned for a coordinated future attack, similar to 9-11.Mainly convential weapons...some gas....Iran has the nukes, so hopefully the nukes are protected. Perhaps a dirty bomb or two.