Walking through the park brings on more blag ideas. One haunting idea has always been the fact that since the year 2001, the USA has been perilously close to getting its first coup d'etat.
All the threats are in place. The criteria for a US military intervention is in place. Democrats are coming into power again. Worse, it appears like a radical is entering the doors of the White House. The excuse is terrorism, and more specifically terrorism conducted by Al Qaeda.
Almost to a man, the volunteer US Army officer corps is unabashedly pro-Republican. The intelligence and homeland security apparatus copies that preference.
Yet what has saved the US from one? If it wasn't for the sheer incompetence of the Bush administration along with the massive obtuse interfering incompetence of Donald Rumsfeld, a military takeover of the US might have taken place by now.
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I'm not sure the U.S. has enough troops left to stage a successful coup d'etat. They're all busy guarding oil for the oil corporations, aren't they?
Perhaps Obama will keep his promise and send a few more troops to help out in Afghanistan, where the REAL weapons of mass destruction turned out to be stone age religious nutballs.
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