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Imagine that the U.S. had attacked China instead of Japan after Pearl Harbor, and a bunch of lying members of a fringe political group were the only ones w/ the President's ear. Imagine that the VP at the time was thought to actually be formulating foreign policy, and he and his friends from civilian life were directly connected financially to attacking China under false pretenses. Imagine that the President back then completely depleted the national treasury and sent us on a path to economic ruin because of this fraudulent and strategically insane military action. And the SOD would not resign. And he would not fire him.

Now you have your WW2 analogy. Of course it's ridiculous. Because there is no analogy. Absolutely none. There is a lot more analogy between our current situation and the winner of a "worst fake Kurt Vonnegut novel" writing contest. You know, where the impossible is normal; like all of the leaders of the USA being former oil industry executives who avoided military service during Viet Nam and used a tragic terrorist attack on US soil to start a fraudulent and disastrous war. And the VP's last job was head of a company that is making billions from the inane war. Wild, wacky stuff that makes prognosticators like Tabs and Ron seem level-headed in comparison. Stock up on guns and bullets and move to Idaho stuff.

There would have been rioting in the streets of DC before people would sacrifice their sons and treasury to that in 1941. People today are incredibly passive, practically asleep at the wheel with their flat-screen TVs and all of the bourgeois rewards of a hot economy from the last few decades. That will be the doom of the USA if anything, not the political infighting. I'd like to see a lot more infighting, impeachment would be a start and show the world some good faith on the part of the U.S.A. Prominent neocon architects of the Iraq invasion locked in Gitmo would pave the way for a lot of world peace.