"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."-- Franklin D. Roosevelt. A must read:"Bush has stampeded America into conflict" by the Chicago Tribune. (click here for local copy) "Bush is using fear as a weapon, not to build courage among Americans but to stampede them into endorsing a case for a war that has been built literally on a grab bag of possibilities, contingencies, ifs and maybes, of things that haven't happened but could happen, of bad guys who might hit us if we don't hit them first. Bush and his neoconservative advisers have manufactured an unneeded war, for reasons of their own, and are leading an America that, with its power and lack of restraint, is more dangerous to world order than Hussein ever could be. The thought that a Third World international pariah could multiply its strength and turn itself into a power sufficient to blackmail the most powerful nation in the history of the world is nothing but panic-mongering. National hysterias come and go, leaving a great deal of damage and creating a sense of communal shame when the panic wears off .."