Feeling sick this morning, a bad case of hives, stayed in bed instead of rushing to ND/NF screenings. News reports of the biggest US air strike in Iraq since 2003: the whole notion (being bandied about this week in the news) of Iraq being on the verge of a civil war as the US is trying to think of ways to leave (Rumsfeld's comments about the possibilities of a peaceful withdrawal) seems to have caused the War Department to go ballistic! Very frightening, especially after seeing something like "My Country, My Country" and seeing the devastation of people's lives there. What is America doing? Why is there such fear of the Bush administration? There is dissent in this country, but it is constantly being derided and marginalized, when it's not, it's becoming more and more the majority opinion.