Remember Daisy

Daisy , a 30-second campaign ad featuring a little girl pulling petals from a daisy may well have put Lyndon Johnson in the White House in 1964. Superimposed over her count comes the familiar launch countdown, then a nuclear mushroom cloud. Finally President Johnson states, "These are the stakes! To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die." Another voice over then says, "Vote for President Johnson on November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home."

Anyone over a certain age remembers Daisy.



Among the first pieces of business the Senate Armed Forces Committee must do is crack open Pentagon planning for "tactical" nukes against Iranian nuclear facilities. Sy Hersch at The New Yorker reported in April17, 2006, on Bush plans for Iran. Now Israel has also revealed such planning according to the London Sunday Times .

What a crazy world! and this from the people that brought you the Summer of Love. What happened to these people. We have a president who seems to understand the world in terms of the sound bites devised for him, featuring "Post-911 World" and "The War On Terror" which make his so very dangerous.

As the Iraq War clearly demonstrates, we can not face Islam Radicalism by declaring war on the Middle East. Terrorism remains a strategy for political and social change and not state action. defeating terrorism requires a completely different approach than the nationalism and militarism now prevalent. These are the same "isms" that ushered in the great military conflicts of modern history.

Furthermore, the War on Terror consumes vast resources which should be put to use in funding a new economy. The planet can no longer balance an economy based on burning carbons. We must spend the wealth, both human and capital, on going green. Our future depends upon it.

President Bush would certainly push the Iraq debacle a notch down in "Huge Blunders By President Bush" (an already incredibly long list) by filling the top spot with "Nuking Iran" or even allowing Israel to nuke Iran for us. There is no question in my mind that the Pentagon has been gaming the scenario. Could there really be an outcome that ends positively for the world?