[John D Harris]

Originally posted by Timber Loftis: Well, Donut, we took your advice. Let's hope this administration fails so horribly there is no doubt as to the idiocy of the preemptive action doctrine. Let's hope for an utter failure in Iraq. Let's hope the US defaults on its debt, and that China and Japan decide (like France and Germany) that it can no longer lend us money. Let's hope we run out of money to support the troops, and have to cut 1/2 our domestic programs just to pay to get them back home. Let's hope our children fail horribly, and a whole generation of dumber-than-dumb Americans result. Let's hope for 10%+ unemployment. Let's hope for more terrorist attacks, especially at the ports to highlight our failures to protect them. Let's hope for environmental disaster, killing many innocents. Let's hope for a 100,000 hectares of clear-cut "healthy forests" and dozens of extinct species. Let's hope we lose every ally in the war on terror. Let's hope a failed Iraq drives Halliburton bankrupt. Let's hope for rampant senior citizen death rates, to highlight the failures of our medical system. Let's hope for all these things, because it will be better for us all in the long run. A little suffering over the next 4 years -- so that we never make such a collosal screw-up again. Let us hope. Let us pray.

With any Luck T.L., I for one can't wait for the next Dark ages to roll across the Face of the earth.