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Interesting article speculating on Dick Cheney's motivations, from a former insider.

While the title, "Sympathy for the devil", is a cliché, it still resonates with me regarding this whole business. I continually seek viewpoints to sanely balance the extreme anti-war and generally anti-Bush stance that the local geopolitical tub has me soaking in. (I'm quite sure I'd feel and act inversely if I lived and worked in a conservative climate.) Today an orker asked me if I was anti-war, and I had to say "My feelings on this topic are subtle and complex." In truth, my internal parliament of demons has a solid anti-war majority -- I can tell because that's the current state of my gut feeling -- but had I just said "yes", the vocal minority would have been bawling within my head for the rest of the day. It's all about tact.

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View from a conservative climate

[poetgeek.livejournal.com]

Well, coming from the opposite tub (the people I see at work every day, at least) the view is no better from over here.

I find this whole business infuriating, because, if it's really about squashed carbonized dino-juice, we as a country could move toward Bio Diesel or some other form of renewable automobile and heating fuel (TODAY, not 5-10 years from now) and real economic disentanglement from the rough and dynamic world that is the international oil market.

Of course, we aren't addressing the human aspect of what a dictatorship-type-government does without money (hint, it does not "go quietly" but perhaps the people should be allowed to choose their own government? [!]).

[asleeponthebeac.livejournal.com]

your icons are cute =)

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Some of those thoughts - that it's all just a big, scary bluff - have crossed my mind. I don't know which is more frightening: that they're willing to play chicken on such a scale, that it might work, or that they really are all about what the surface looks to be. *twitch*