[jaguar]

Smooth made damn good point as as UT said, pity you all missed it, particularly you jane. Since you seem incapable of enough imagination to understand what he was saying, i'll outline a more likely and more realistic scenario. I'll ignore the fact that the likelyhood of the scenario should be irrelevent.

Widespread failure/unaccountability of over 2 million votes in november by electronic voting machines causes the election to fall into disarray. The issue goes to a supreme court that gets loaded in bush's favor and the election is largely viewed as hijacked, even inside the US. The Patriot II act is dug up, re-branded the Save the Children and Kill Terrorists act creating the groundwork for a police state in the US. Another major terrorist attack involving chemical weapons in D.C causes a far further erosion of civil liberties while keep discontent below boiling point. The heads of the major media networks, all of whom have strong ties and relationships with the white house (big biz has done well and the republicans have done well from them) push an agenda that changing leadership in the middle of this crucial war for our freedom would be counterproductive and hurt the effort to keep our proud fighting men and women able to do their work....

While anyone here will attest that I am no fan of the invasion of Iraq, the idea that the people would rise up is laughable. They did, multiple times. The last time was just after the first Iraq war, they thought they were doing it with the support of the US who promptly pulled out and left them to get shot to bits. If you talk to anyone that was on the ground in the intervening 10 years or so (I have) you'd know that the opression was so absolute, so complete that organising a resistance movement capable of taking down Saddam as he stood was close to impossible.

Trust me, get get trolls out of here fairly fast. Apart from Radar, eveyone needs a laugh.