13. “Baghdad Burning,” River Bend blog, May 7, 2004, http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com/.
14. Joanna Chung and Alex Halperin, “Arab Attitudes to U.S. Hardening,”
15. “Millions Marched Against Bush’s War,” February 14-16,2003, http://www.failureisimpossible.com/dosomething/0215.htm.
16. Shreffler’s complete poem reads:
She’s new to the neighborhood, her family just moved in
From Greece or somewhere, she’s a great, tall, gawky girl
With braces and earrings and uneven skin:
Hormones and acne, her change is coming in,
And today, she’s playing hooky. January fog.
Orange lights on the school zone sign beat out their tattoo
And caution the Homeland’s socked-in morning rush
With their strobe-light samba: Condition Amber,
As she sits invisible, swinging her legs to the beat,
Perched up high on aluminum over
The uncanny Day-Glo of the key-lime fluorescence
That says: School at the top of this composition.
I see her and she lets me. I’m an old family friend:
Sometimes I play poker with her Aunt Erato.
Her name is Nemesis and she’s just moved in,
She’s new to the neighborhood, she’s checking it out.
17. Micha F. Lindemans, “Nemesis,”
18. Richard Wagner,
1: MILITARISM AND THE BREAKDOWN OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
1. Newsmax, “Tommy Franks: Martial Law Will Replace Constitution After Next Terror Attack,” November 21, 2003, http://www.propagandarnatrix.com/211103martiallaw.html.
2. Kevin Baker, “We’re in the Army Now,”
3. Robert C. Byrd, “Congress Must Resist the Rush to War,”
4. Editorial, “Last Days of the Republic,”
5. Bill Winter, “The Monarchization of America Under Bush,” Libertarian Party, October 29, 2004, http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2004nn/0410nn/041029nn.htm#680.
6. Adam Young, “War Gave Us Caesar,” Ludwig von Mises Institute, October 12, 2004, http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1642.
7. Robin Cook, “Bush Will Now Celebrate by Putting Fallujah to the Torch,”
8. Thomas E. Ricks, “Ex-Envoy Criticizes Bush’s Postwar Policy,”
9. Sonni Efron, “Diplomats on the Defensive,”
10. “President Addresses the Nation in Prime Time Press Conference” (White House, April 13, 2004), p. 8, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040413-20.html.
11. Quoted by John Dillin, “To the Founders, Congress was King,”
12. Lieutenant Colonel Charles J. Dunlap Jr., “The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012,”
13. “Base Closure List Becomes Battleground,” MSNBC.com, May 13, 2005, http://www.msnbc.msn.eom/id/7834939/print/l/displaymode/1098/; Charles V. Pena, “Base Closing Blues,”
14. Hannah Arendt,
15. James Madison, “Political Observations,” April 20, 1795, http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/quotes/madison_perpetual_war.html. Madison’s statement on war continues:” [It should be well understood] that the powers proposed to be surrendered [by the Third Congress] to the Executive were those which the Constitution has most jealously appropriated to the Legislature.... The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war ... the power of raising armies ... the power of creating offices.... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted. The separation of the power of raising armies from the power of commanding them, is intended to prevent the raising of armies for the sake of commanding them. The separation of the power of creating offices from that of filling them, is an essential guard against the temptation to create offices for the sake of gratifying favorites or multiplying dependents.”
16. Gore Vidal,
17. Michael J. Sullivan III,
