A NEW 9/11 COULD EXTEND BUSH'S TERM IN OFFICE.

THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE: UNDER MAY 9 DIRECTIVE, A NEW 9/11 COULD EXTEND BUSH'S TERM IN OFFICE.
A message to all those concerned with the 2008 presidential election - Republican, Democratic and independent: it's irrelevant.

Who cares whether your candidate is for or against abortion or gay marriage or tweaking the health care system? Who cares how he/she feels about Ronald Reagan? Who cares if they are for or against impeachment? It's as irrelevant as Jimmy Carter's observations on George W. Bush are not.

We, as Americans, are in a vast state of denial. We're acting as if everything is OK, as if times were normal, as if we can carry on, in 2008, as though the Bush administration never happened.

But everything that has not already changed is changing now.

A chill ran through my body a few days ago when the news broke that President Bush authorized the CIA to conduct a covert "black" operation to "destabilize the Iranian government."

According to ABC News, the plan includes "a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions." And this is in addition to our current massive multinational show of Naval force in the Persian Gulf.

At this point on the Outrage Express (which is what I call the bullet-train of fear that's been running through my veins since George W. Bush became President) I have two main focuses.

One is that the man is mad enough to start another war - possibly with nuclear weapons - against Iran. No diplomacy, no concern for life, no immediate threat, no nothing. And this is already well under way.

The other is that somehow, in some way, God - the one Mr. Bush claims is talking him through all of this madness, mayhem and murder - will convince him that times are so dangerous that he must stay in office even after his term is over.

I hear you saying, "She's paranoid, right?"

Then take a look at National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51, also called Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20.

Under this directive, President Bush entrusts himself with leading the entire government - not just the Executive Branch - during a "catastrophic emergency."

He makes himself the American czar, in keeping with the war czar and the drug czar and whatever else kind of crazy czar he's got down there in Washington.

The correct word for it, however, would be "dictator."

Read the directive for yourself. It was released by the White House on May 9, and can be found at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509.