I have heard from thousands of people who have expressed concerns about a potential hypothetical: What if bad people controlled the government and they intentionally reduced our military readiness and capacity? What if these bad people deployed our few remaining combat assets in various non-mission-oriented, but "politically correct" photo opportunities? What if the only means of defending our nation from foreign invasion (which the Bill of Rights guarantees) were to be politically attrited? Henry Kissinger gave an address to the Bilderberger organization meeting at Evian, France, on May 21, 1991. As transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates, he said: "Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will willingly be relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by their world government." A line from the X-Files says "The truth is out there." Let's play connect the dots with some recent events.

• Feb. 20, 1998: Two so-called "white supremacists" are apprehended and held on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack with a biological agent, believed to be anthrax. We have all been warned of the Iraqi threat of chemical and biological warfare. It is (under)reported that Larry Wayne Harris is a researcher who was experimenting on anthrax, but that the research was focused on how to prevent anthrax from spreading to people.
• Feb. 20, 1998: CBS honchos are more than a little red-faced in the wake of Friday's "practice" news report about a U.S. bombing of Iraq which was inadvertently transmitted to television stations by satellite. A technician at a West Virginia station was shocked and amazed when he was buzzing through satellite transmissions and found CBS's Dan Rather describing the aircraft used in a bombing run on Baghdad. One problem, however, there were no aircraft used and there was no bombing run on Baghdad ... yet. Have you seen "Wag the Dog" yet?
• Feb. 18, 1998: The Clintonistas organize (conspire) with CNN to televise a "Town Hall Meeting" in the heartland. CNN tightly controls the event, questions and questioners are supposed to be vetted, and the objective was a well scripted, heavily controlled sales job. Whoops ... real people asked real questions and the event turned into a public relations nightmare. In addition to the numerous outspoken critics, we did not see the many others that were quietly ushered from the event (perhaps in preparation for their IRS audits?).
• Feb. 17, 1998: National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" chose to not consider one item which contradicted their preconceived view of reality. NPR organized a 90-minute special which overwhelmingly offered speakers favoring a bombing of Iraq. Apparently there was only one voice of opposition, Sara Flounders. Flounders is with the International Action Center. She was given one minute to speak, and she was the only speaker cut off. In fact, NPR actually deleted her one minute comment of opposition from the "official transcript" of the program.
• February 1998: The Pentagon expresses concern (from sources speaking only on conditions of anonymity/career survival) that there is no clearly defined strategy for military action in the Gulf by this administration.
• February 1998: Col. David Hackworth reports on the brave and soon to be career-challenged General Hendrix announcing his first-line combat troops would require 180 days to become "combat ready".
• We do not have the capacity we enjoyed in 1991 for Desert Storm. Thanks largely to the Clinton administration we do not have the logistical support, the manpower, the readiness, or the allied coalition we had previously. U.S.-sparked military action in Iraq is a colossal accident waiting to happen.
• Feb. 15, 1998: Egypt's President Mubarak has warned the U.S. that any plan to divide Iraq would not be acceptable, and would precipitate long-term escalated aggression.
• Feb. 14, 1998: Iraq and Iran have been reported to have kissed and made up sufficiently to join forces against the aggressor infidel.
• February 1998: The Clinton administration is in chaos. Former Clintonistas Leon Panetta, George Stephanopoulos and Dee Dee Myers are equivocating, and scrambling for plausible deniability.
• Feb. 11, 1998: Russia has indicated (several times) that they not only object to a U.S. attack on Iraq but are prepared to support Iraq (according to Egypt's Al-sha'n newspaper, Baghdad requested $20 billion in urgent military and humanitarian aid from Russia).