Kiss your country goodbye (gingerly, as it was becoming a bit of a pig anyhow)

I think the insanity of the Bush Crime Family is now beginning to worry even the not-quite-as-mad leaders of Israel.

Check this out (when I heard of Chertoff's warming this morning and then read this, I went "uh oh"):

US Sends ‘Nuclear Flash Alert’ Message To All Military Forces, Syrian Leaders Go To Bunkers

I think we have reached the stage we were at shortly before 9/11 was perpetrated by Chertoff's tribe. The economy then as now was on the verge of implosion. The difference this time is that there is no more "Greenspan magic" to work because if "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke attempts to duplicate the "free money" scenario to blow another bubble, the dollar will go into freefall.

So, I think Sorcha is right, the U.S. executive branch (which now runs the other two) is now prepared to commit "national suicide" rather than admit to the increasingly angry public that all their policies have failed. It is eerily reminiscent of the late 1980s Soviet Union situation.