The danger of saluting false flags.

"When it comes to George W. Bush, expect the worst but always prepare for the worst." ~Dada

It was six years ago this weekend that president Bush told the Associated Press, " a dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."

Since that summer of 2001, we have seen a steady erosion of American's rights in an endless consolidation of power seized by the White House, sometimes without our knowledge, other times surrendered willingly (particularly by our congress). Obviously, Bush's quip to the AP was far more serious than amusing as originally interpreted.

As former assistant Treasury Secretary under Ronald Reagan, Paul Craig Roberts, warned in an editorial and during an interview on the Thom Hartman radio program last week, American's fear of terrorism is misplaced.

Roberts says republicans are facing a "total blowout" in the upcoming 2008 elections. The Bush-Cheney-Rove gangster family knows this and that's what makes them ever more dangerous.

"Americans think their danger is terrorists," said Roberts. "They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution."

Even if they wanted to or could, terrorists needn't bother. That's because the far more frightening terrorists are doing that for them. And these are the "Americans" of the Bush administration who are dismantling the nation just fine on their own under the guise of protecting our asses, thank you.

But they're not done, according to the warnings of Roberts. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" last week is but a hint of the terror that's to come. (Maybe it's easy to sense the future when you have a hand in molding it? ~Dada)

Expect false flag operations within the United States to reignite American fears; for Bush and Cheney to steal the store while citizens are running scared in the streets begging for protections from the very people they should be fearing most--Little George and Big Dick.

"Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran," Roberts warns.

He continues, "There's no belief in the people or anything like that. They" (the administration) "have agendas. The people are in the way. The Constitution is in the way. ... Americans need to comprehend and look at how ruthless Cheney is. ... A person like that would do anything."

If our congress does not impeach, Roberts holds little hope in the public to stop them. That leaves only the federal bureaucracy or the military, which may have had about enough of the Bush-Cheney bullshit, to save us from Bush making his job, "a heck of a lot easier."

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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.