Honestly, what would you do if the Bush Administration attacked Iran..

[WCGreen]

What would you do...

What could you do...

What could congress do...

We all, meaning the people on DU, did what we could to stop Iraq and it did absolutely nothing...

What do you do when your country acts on your behalf and you believe with a certainty so strong you can taste it in your mouth and feel it in you gut that it is wrong...

What would you do...

What should you do...

Because people, it's coming...

I can feel it in my gut...

What are you going to do if the missles start flying...

How does it feel to be totaly without power, without a say in what is going on in your name as an American...

How did it come to this...

What will we tell out children...

If any of us are left...

That once there was a place that held a promise for the future...

Once there was a great country...

Once we stood for something...

Once we had a chance and we tossed it all away...

We let it slip away into oblivian...

[MNDemNY]

1. Well, I am only a short drive from Canada.

[TwilightGardener]

2. I would wave goodbye as my husband went off on more deployments.

[WCGreen]

7. Oh god...

How do you stand that...

[TwilightGardener]

13. Well, we signed up for it--during the first Bush administration, post Gulf War One,

when the world was relatively peaceful. Didn't foresee endless war in the Middle East 15 years later, LOL! Too close to retirement for my husband to quit now, so...grin and bear it, I guess!

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Realistically? Cry, then emigrate to Ireland with my Irish spouse. nt

[Hekate]

4. Duck and cover.

And kiss my country goodbye. :cry:

Hekate

[The Count]

5. WE didn't toss it - it's been snatched - but you're right otherwise....

[xultar]

6. Packin my shit and drivin to Canada. Post fuckin haste.

[iconoclastic cat]

8. I would research Canada a bit first, if I were you.

Especially their government's environmental policies.

[fenriswolf]

11. also

gaining meaningfull employment is almost impossible in canada. but i would move their anyway, when global warming finally hits canada will be a major global power.

[ananda]

41. newsflash

Global warming is here. It's hitting us now,
and it's only going to get worse and worse,
until....

[MercutioATC]

16. Bwaaaaah! "Environmental policies"???? We're talking about war.

The goal would be to protect my son from a draft.

That being the goal, Canadian leaders could sip endangered kitten blood while strip mining for genetically modified lead....as long as they didn't draft my son.

[Lisa]

38. "sip endangered kitten blood" -- so, you've met Stephen Harper! (n/t)

[nightrider767]

9. Could he do it without the approval of Congress?

I wonder.

[WCGreen]

12. He could argue that he already has it with that lame ass

resolution that passed...

[EVDebs]

23. Sept 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) and Oct 2002 Iran AUMF

Sept. 18, 2001 AUMF
http://news.findlaw.com/wp/docs/terrorism/sjres23.es.html

and

Oct. 2, 2002 AUMF/ IWR
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html

Note each resolution gives Bush '...as he determines...' powers. Note also that in both the War Powers Resolution is embedded.

War Powers Resolution of 1973
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/warpower.htm

This law requires Bush & Co. to adhere to "clear" -- read truthful-- "circumstances" and "situations". If the WMDs were bogus, then the 2002 resolution needs to be revisited, as Sen Warner has noted in the past.

Furthermore, the terrorist organization language in the 2001 AUMF, which is being used to describe the Iran Revolutionary Guard and Quds Force and Iranian military as terrorist groups, is already in place should Bush decide to "unleash the hounds".

This could be the reason why lately the media has played up the 'nutty' 9-11 Truth movement and not mentioned at all the Jersey Girls 9-11 Press For Truth movement. If the real facts of 9-11 were to be revealed as a false flag operation for example, and a revisit of THAT AUMF looked into, you would have no doctrine of pre-emption as the Bush Administration seeks to employ in the ME.

Treason, by using a false pretext for not one but TWO wars, is a war crime. Sorry to bring up such inconvenient facts but that's the case and I can still speak truth to power (at least until Cheney decides to start the next war and I'm off to a concentration camp).

[nightrider767]

25. Hate to think so

But maybe that's why he continues to call it a war. To continue his authority along that line. Fact is, the war is over, we won. We're only cleaning up/recovering from the war disaster now.

I always wondered why he never emphasized that as a talking point.

But like you allude, maybe there is a reason....

[Warren Stupidity]

47. Yes. See the War Powers Resolution.

Bush is only required to consult Congress. He then has 60-90 days to do whatever he wants regardless of what Congress thinks. Plus, this Congress?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

10. He and Cheney might be impeached. Not for the morality of it, but because

gas would be $7/gallon.

For whatever reason, the American people only care about gas prices.

[goodgd_yall]

14. Make concrete plans to emigrate

instead of just thinking about it.

[ClassWarrior]

15. Work harder. If that freakin thunderhead has any silver lining at all...

...it's that the outrage and the desire on the part of citizens to act will be more powerful than ever.

NGU.

[WCGreen]

18. We can only hope...

[ClassWarrior]

21. Hope 'tis the most important thing we got.

:toast:

NGU.

[Kolesar]

24. They are going to have to circle the White Houses with busses like Nixon

...did during that massive antiwar mobilization four decades ago.

[...of J.Temperance]

17. It'd be pretty depressing and VERY disturbing

What would I do?

Dunno, probably down a bottle of Tequila and then go and have a nap....

[liberal N proud]

19. What can we do?

I can't flee the country, they fixed that with the passport thing. Although I do a spot I could cross with out anyone knowing.

Those of us left here will be screwed more than we can imagine at this point.

[Alhena]

20. Make some angry posts on this board. Same as 99%

of the people here. I would add, however, that I don't see bombing Iran to be the complete and utter lunacy that I viewed the Iraq war as being from the start.

It's not a good thing when you've got a religious zealot who has promised to destroy Israel developing nuclear weapons. Having said that, I think this is more Israel's problem than ours and I'd like to see them do their own dirty work for a change.

[WCGreen]

28. That's true but this Putin thing is starting to get on my nerves...

[scarletwoman]

46. WTH? Ahmadinejad has NOT "promised to destroy Israel"! That's a bullshit talking point put out by

the warmongers. He may be a "religious zealot" but he's neither insane or suicidal. He'd like to see the end of Zionism -- so would most of the people in that region of the world -- but he has never directly threatened to attack Israel the way Israel is constantly directly threatening to attack Iran.

The IAEA has found no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. The Ayatollahs who rule Iran have issued a fatwah against developing nuclear weapons. The Iranians just may be telling the truth when they insist that all they are looking to do is to develop nuclear energy generating capability.

The hysteria about Iran is ridiculous. I personally think they should get nuclear weapons, it might sober people up. MAD might be just what that region needs.

sw

[Golden Raisin]

22. Hope that the Bush regime doesn't

use war (undoubtedly preemptive, fait accompli and without consultation of Congress) with Iran as an excuse to declare a state of emergency and martial law here in the "homeland". I would put NOTHING past these thugs.

[woodsprite]

26. Protect hubby and my children from *co.

I'd rather be doing it from another country, but I can't see that happening.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. What can we do?

Apparently, not much...

Your thread is heartbreaking and so damned true...

My husband and I have already decided that we will stay here...

It saddens me to see how few choices we really have...

K&R

:patriot:

[CrispyQ]

29. I would finally get my shit together & purchase some hand tools, gardening tools,

a ton of canned goods, bicycles for me & my husband, books on all sorts of subjects, & possibly look into some kind of solar generator. I know, I know, I should do those things now. Why don't I? Cuz it sounds kind of paranoid. :crazy:

It is disheartening that so many people in my generation (I'm 50) feel that we have lived during the best time of this country.

[WCGreen]

33. I just turned 50....

I have a lot of canned food around just incase...

Always keep at least three cases of water on hand...

I'm gonna buy a hand gun...

I have two turning radios with flashlights on them...

I need to get a generator since I am on O2...

[CrispyQ]

34. I don't know a thing about this kind of stuff, but it looks intriguing.

Off grid living from Gaiam:

http://www.gaiam.com/retail/product/41-0218

I assume the photo show five individual units.

[rjones2818]

30. Find the nearest fallout shelter.

If W attacks Iran, particularly if he uses nukes, Russia will probably respond massively (I would go so far as to say that they would have to because there's a crackpot in the WH and not doing so would pretty much cement W as hegemon).

:hide:

:nuke:

:puke:

[man4allcats]

31. I would put my head between my knees

and kiss my ass good-bye. Apparently, Putin and Iran's leadership have a plan:

A high-level diplomatic source in Tehran tells Asia Times Online that essentially Putin and the Supreme Leader have agreed on a plan to nullify the George W Bush administration's relentless drive towards launching a preemptive attack, perhaps a tactical nuclear strike, against Iran. An American attack on Iran will be viewed by Moscow as an attack on Russia.

[polichick]

32. I don't think it's an "if" question, but a "when"

It's unthinkable ~ just as many, many things that have happened in the last few years were once unthinkable in the U.S.

[Mike03]

35. Probably go (further) into "Survival Mode"

I've been preparing for a disaster for more than four years; however, it's easy to get complacent. I would probably go to the store and stock up (more) on water, basic essentials, canned goods. I might withdraw a lot of cash. I might liquedate a lot of my conventional (i.e., non-gold, non-petroleum) investments, at least for the short term.

Then I would lay low and observe.

Also, I would try one last time to encourage my family to do the same. My implorations that they prepare for something major have, for the most part, fallen on deaf ears.

[CyberPieHole]

36. I'm in South America...

but my friends and family are in the U.S. I would be scared for them. I don't really know what else I could do.:shrug:

[Lisa]

37. I would drop everything and run over to my Persian friends' house

Because for sure they would be crying.

And after ... well, I live in Canada, so probably the best thing I could do would be to demand of my political leaders that we NOT follow Bush. And then I would start getting ready to host some American visitors (many of whom have draft-age kids).

[Mrs. Overall]

39. Nothing, absolutely nothing.....everything is fine. (Prozac discovered in drinking water--seriously)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x118577

[WCGreen]

40. I thought that was only in England....

[slipslidingaway]

42. Perhaps we should be doing something now...

by supporting someone who has been speaking out against the Iran war propaganda for years.

:shrug:


http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=246120

"And, as in 2002 and early 2003, the most rational response is coming from Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Democrat who says, "After the lies and deception used to lead us to war in Iraq, the belligerent Bush Administration cannot be given leeway with statements that suggest a preemptive attack on Iran is necessary," says Kucinich, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nod who deserves a much better hearing that he has been afforded so far by the media and Democratic power brokers. "We are systematically destroying every available route to restoring peace and security in the Middle East," he adds.

Kucinich may be running for the White House, but his message is most relevant to Capitol Hill. "Congress," he says, "must take back its exclusive authority to declare war from the Bush Administration."

He's right.

But being right is not always enough in tenuous times.

Being heard is what matters."



February 27, 2007 by The Nation
Collision Course With Iran
by Representative Dennis J. Kucinich

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0227-28.htm



Kucinich Questions The President On US Trained Insurgents In Iran
Sends Letter To President Bush

Washington, Apr 18, 2006 -

http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=42505

[Yael]

43. I would go shopping! Yep, straight to the mall

to make sure that our corporate CEOs aren't hurt by this. Thats what my pretzeldent advises!

:patriot:






:sarcasm:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

44. Work like hell to make sure that Defense Industry Darling Clinton doesn't get the nomination

Just like I'm doing now.

[scarletwoman]

45. Best answer yet! (nt)

[amandabeech]

48. Scream, pray, cry, write letters and protest, in about that order.

I can't abandon ship and don't want to, although I might go live with my mom in the sticks (I live in the D.C. area) if things get really scary, and I mean lots of bombs going off in D.C.

Someone has to stick around, try to keep things from getting totally out of control and pick up the pieces afterward.

[MrSlayer]

49. I'm going to go to work the next day.

There really is nothing that we could do about it. These guys will do as they please and no one will stop them. So the best thing to do is just carry on.

[LWolf]

50. I don't know what I could do as an individual,

other than to make sure that I NEVER cast a vote for anyone who leaves war on the table as a viable international relations policy.

I would, just as I have with Iraq, join up with other individuals, form groups to oppose it. And hope we could be even larger, even louder, and that enough of the people who keep voting warmongers into office would finally wake up and join us that we could put enough people in Washington to block such efforts in the future.