December 8th, 2006 A.D.

I was gratified to hear from many different sources of the apparent discrediting of the Iraq Survey Group report, and the leading man of that report, former Secretary of State James Baker. Strange the fortunes of war, and of politics. Six years ago, it was Baker who led the legal and political team that stopped Al Gore from stealing the 2000 presidential election by dismantling the rule of law in vote-counting in Florida and then falsely accusing the Republicans of his own criminal conduct. In 2001-2003, Baker frequently appeared in public on television and other public forums, defending President Bush 43 in his pursuit of the war against Islamist terrorism. He was looked upon as an esteemed elder statesman by almost all Americans who knew much about politics.

But that was up until two days ago. Now he is a joke, a man who will forever be associated, as Neville Chamberlain did in 1940, as a gullible fool who was willing to appease those bent on the destruction of civilization.

For that matter, so will be the American people. I predict that in the coming months there will be instances of U.S. Senate seats that will unexpectedly pass into Republican hands, and control of that chamber in so doing, as unrepairable revelations of criminal scandal come to the surface. And there will be a dismantling of similar control over the next year of the House; it will be extraordinary how swiftly the results of elections will be set aside as the tolling bells of war ring with greater urgency.

A man was arrested in Illinois today, before he could blow up a shopping mall and slaughter dozens, if not hundreds of people just before Christmas. This is the ninth time this year, I understand, that Americans or legal immigrants were arrested as part of intended terrorist activity.

Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.


--GOD, Belisarius, the Cid, and for Spain!....for England and St. George!--