Leon Panetta is a scary, scary man

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50. Lots of scary people out there. Saying no doesn't seem to matter, as another

poster pointed out upthread.

In fact, no one wants even to acknowledge that significant numbers of sane, intelligent people are saying no.

And, when both of the largest political parties tell us we should be saying yes, the polls tend to start saying yes as well, as they are now. Tell most people that they are in imminent danger of dying and taking their families with them unless they say yes, and they tend to say yes, even if whether they say yes or no to a public poll question is pretty much irrelevant in DC.

Johnson was the last Democratic President a lot of Democrats opposed vigorously on the war issue. Some of those Democrats still post here and I saw at least one posting regret about that opposition. Doesn't matter if Johnson or they are right or wrong. We're a go along lot, even on something as heinous and mindless as war, especially now that the necons of all political identifications were smart enough to get the draft abolished.