February 3, 2006 journal, 2,253 dead, requesting 140 billion more for the Iraqi civil war. 5 died yesterday in this clandestine war. A Senate hearing on the Iranian nuclear drama, a five-star general in charge of certain intelligence was asked how many phones were tapped and he refused to answer. Jay Rockefeller stated that the wiretapping was illegal but he is so moneylogged until he is likely not to be very effective in doing anything about it. Today an Egyptian ferry boat reports sank in the Red Sea from Gaza with 1400 people on board. The propaganda news blanketing this country begins every morning with a dose of Iranian Nuclear weapons threat to the world. The same news major media that tells you about the request for 140 billion more dollars for the war, tell you that contractor waste / corruption in Iraq is rapid, that some building projects are paid for but never have been even built. yet there is no delay in getting fancy cars and a thousand other luxurious to those contractors. I now continue to quote from post State of the Union analysis by Jack D. Douglas. "Party Suicide at the end of time, which never occurs in eternity. Ahh, there's the loophole. Al-ways a loophole. But, aside from eternal considerations, it is truly preposterous to even proclaim committing an entire nation, most of whom now loathe the tyrannical proclamat-ionist, to a Permanent War To End All Tyranny. Even if Americans roll over as usual and play their standard part of obedient and happy slave to the police state, it is simply utterly preposterous to think that any one nation or all nations combined can end all tyranny for all time. The social, cultural, and economic world is not a linear stairway to heaven. It is non-linear, punctuated by catastrophe (inversion) points, and often cyclical as well (so that even long run linear developments proceed in oscillations up and down). Even the most virtuous nations become tyrannies at time. Look at the U.S.! The perfect example. We have been through quite a few cycles of tyranny and legitimacy, corruption and reform, and back again. And, as all intelligent people know, B*us*h and his Party on the Supreme Court overturned the Constitution in 2000 to stop the count of votes in Florida to anoint B*us*h as "President" even though Gore had far more votes nationwide and would have had in Florida if they had not been "misplaced" and "stolen" and "uncounted." Most of us following the evidence carefully also think they did it again in 2004 by Diebolding America with fraudulent voting in Florida, Ohio and probably other states. B*us*h is the perfect example of a tyrant in the U.S. who is fighting ter*rorist wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and around the world to impose vastly worse t*yrannies than we are suffering. But the world is even more complex than that. In Iraq the U.S. overturned the Hussein tyranny it had helped to impose on the Iraqis and supported in its tyrannical invasion of Iran, then over threw that tyranny to impose its own over the Sunnis while allowing the Kurds to go free and the Shia to cooperate in imposing a tyra*nny on themselves and the Sunnis, then... There is no simple linear stairway to heaven or hell. B*us*h's Utopianism & Millennialism are either perfect examples of childish ignorance about the world or blatant lies by a tyrant beating the breastplate of righteousness--pretending to be against tyranny--to distract the ignorant and stupid people from seeing the obvious fact that he is a t*y*rant. The Soviets always proclaimed themselves the real democrats building the real free society of their Worker's Paradise. We Pragmatists did not believe them and we do not believe B*us*h. Fortunately, I do not believe he really means any of this. It's just more tyrannical lies to deceive people. I do not think he will launch an eternal war to end all tyranny. He is in full retreat from his earlier proclamations of Utopia just around the corner and is attacking, beating the breastplate of mock-heroism, to cover his retreat. His utopianism now is what”