John,

Some have seen it coming. A decision of the nightmare type.

Words like "I will listen to the commanders on the ground, not politicians" and other hints at who runs things from the background.

These indicate a language where the military is in command over the civilians. The neoCons use it more and more these daze.

Now the military is directly rebuking members of the Senate:

In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces.

(Big Brother Speaks). There needs to be an outcry and a demand for the resignation of the jackass so it can go back to civics school.

Or we may become a military run banana republic where decisions are made by the commander or the fuehrer.

We may end up having paper ballots like Stalin used, with stalinists doing the counting.

John,

You said Yesterday the key word was “decision”.

Perhaps the "old style conservative" and past member of the Reagan administration was not wild eyed when he said "Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran" (link).

The regime has just announced that it is officially above Congress and the laws Congress makes. The Department of Justice Just Us has been ordered not to prosecute any cases of contempt of Congress. Now we know why Harriet Meirs did a no show:

Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked executive privilege.

(WaPo, emphasis added).

This is the clearest sign of a republican dictatorship married to the military industrial complex we have seen. If the courts back this we are toast as a democracy.

Big Brother is a republican.