I am afraid even if Bush loses the election, he will order some sort

[KlatooBNikto]

of a major escalation of the war on Iraq such as carpet bombing of major cities like Baghdad, Fallujah,Nasiriyah etc.There is a historical precedent for these acts by megalomaniacs.Hitler did order such a scorched earth tactic on his own people in Berlin as the advancing Red Army approached the gates. Only the decency of some of the generals in his own Army stopped that barbaric act.I hope we too have people in our forces who refuse such orders to kill innocent civilians at the orders of another deranged and power drunk madman.

[mazzarro]

1. My fear is that he will probably escalate either the Syrian or Iranian

issue to compound the situation in Iraq thus making it more difficult for Kerry to find acceptable solutions.

[ReadTomPaine]

2. I think there is a very strong possibility of this if he loses on Nov 2.

While we are all awaiting an October surprise, I wonder if December will bring the real shocker.

RTP.

[murielm99]

3. Just like his father.

If you remember, his father ordered twenty-five thousand troops to Somalia to help with a peacekeeping mission, on December 4, 1992.

It was Poppy's little parting shot at Clinton and all the people who didn't vote for him.

I expect shrub to do something worse.

[gratuitous]

18. And then three weeks later

In the dead of night on Christmas Eve 1992, Poppy issued his pardons that decapitated the Iran-contra investigation, two weeks before Caspar Weinberger was to go on trial, the evidence from which would have surely put the lie to Poppy's formulation that he was "out of the loop" on that little exercise in unconstitutional adventurism.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. A December surprise?

In December 1992, bu$h Senior sent 25,000 troops to Somalia, just 6 weeks before Clinton took office

[markbark]

5. A measured response to such an act from the Bush* Admin

might be for the new Kerry Admininstration to arrange an all expense paid trip the The Haage for the entire Bush* cabal.

(Maybe W and Saddam could be cellmates?)

--MAB

[Dem2theMax]

13. Remember in the debate how * kept saying he didn't want 'our

military' personnel to have to go to trial 'in another country' or some such phrase? Can't remember it off the top of my head. But I knew that what he was really saying is 'I, pResident *, am NOT going to the Hague for any trial of any sort so don't any of you get any ideas.' And it's EXACTLY where he belongs, owning up to his crimes. Don't I wish? :bounce:

[ChickMagic]

17. I remember that too

He said something to the effect that if an American citizen wound up at the Hague, our military would be ordered to rescue them. He said that well before war crimes were apparent.

[ComerPerro]

6. He most certainly will

And that is the least he will do. If he only does that, we should consider ourselves fortunate.

[mopaul]

7. he ain't goin' down quietly, that's for sure

they've invested too many lives and dollars and careers on this

[catmandu57]

8. He'll do something

A scorched earth, we have to hope that there will be someone in the military high enough to block whatever he tries to pull.

[0007]

9. junior has already started being mean, by putting all the

pecker shops off limit.....and just to be indeed mean Scalia sez that us civilians should enjoy more orgies.

junior's screwing the troops!

[sam sarrha]

10. you mean like the Xmas carpet bombing of Hanoi..no one could stop it..

i was apolitical till then. I became a frothing at the mouth radical because of it for a long time.. it is still the basis of a lot of my distrust of the FUCKING FASCIST PIG REPUBLICANS. :wtf: :nuke: :nuke:

[jean]

11. he is an aftermath person - he leaves a wake of death and destruction

even while trying to be on his best behavior. I hope and pray there is some person or group who can lay a heavy directive on him and Cheney after Nov 2 to take their hands off the reins of power.

[elehhhhna]

12. Don't forget Poppy sent troops to Somalia as an FU to Bill Clinton...

Called it a going-away present. These bastards will cavalierly toy with life & death in pursuit of revenge.

[KlatooBNikto]

14. If Bush loses the election, as a lame duck, he may have no

restraints on him whatsoever and will be able to unleash his vengeance on the weakest, which is to say, the innocent civilians of Iraq. He may also think that no future American President is likely to hand another American President over to the International Criminal Court for War Crimes.So, whatever attacks he will unleash will be merciless and barbaric in the extreme.

Let us pray for the people of Iraq if he loses.

[King Coal]

15. Do you think he will pardon Kenny Boy?

[KlatooBNikto]

16. The question will be not whether he will pardon Kenny Boy or the

multitude of criminals he has given protection to, but whether in a more justly ordered world he can escape prosecution for war crimes.As Kofi Annan has warned" There is no statute of limitations on war crimes".

[Kanary]

19. I'd like to read your post -- the subject got my attention.

But when the sentences are run together with no spaces inbetween, it's just to hard to read.

Please, have some pity on us, and allow our eyes a break. :)

Thanks.....

Kanary