Moreover, the “poll found fully 43% of voters in favor of actually impeaching the President, with just 50% of voters opposed,” according to Raw Story. “While only 18% of Republicans surveyed wanted to see Bush impeached, 61% of Democrats and 47% of Independents reported they wanted to see the House move ahead with the Conyers (D-MI) resolution.” Of course, this will never happen, and if the Conyers resolution gains any steam there will naturally be a terrorist event to distract the public, as the neocons control the horizontal and vertical of the political reality in this country.

Meanwhile, Bush has released a national security document amplifying the Straussian neocon plan for endless generational war and has embarked on a “series of speeches defending his Iraq policy,” according to the Jerusalem Post, while the Pentagon has simultaneously kicked off an “assault against insurgent strongholds near Samarra,” billed as the “biggest offensive in Iraq since it began its occupation in 2003? by Zaman Online, a Turkish news website.

“Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey said Thursday that a considerable number of civilian losses may take place in an air strike held in a residential area. McCaffrey highlighted the biggest threat in Iraq now originates from sectarian conflicts tending to turn into a civil war and said the operation against the Sunni resistant targets may increase the inter-sectarian conflicts further,” precisely what the neocons have in mind since Iraq must be split into three disparate chunks along ethnic and religious lines, a plan long ago spelled out by the Jabotinskyites in Israel and reflected in neocon policy for at least a decade.

As usual, the complicit corporate media has added the required amount of spin to “Operation Swarmer,” characterizing it, per Pentagon handouts, as an “attack on insurgents hiding around Samarra,” according to the recently sold Knight Ridder. In fact, “insurgents” are everywhere in Iraq as most Iraqis oppose the occupation of their country and such opposition is regarded as insurgency.

It appears “a considerable number of civilian losses” is part and parcel of the “strongest signal yet” sent to the Iraqi people, who are preparing for the neocon engineered civil war in their country, “readying themselves for the worst, fleeing likely flash points, stockpiling weapons and basic foodstuffs, barricading their neighborhoods, and drawing lines in the sand delineating Sunni and Shiite territory,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

In order to sell “Operation Swarmer” to a reluctant public, we are told the “insurgents hiding around Samarra” are in fact “loyal to al-Qaeda’s Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,” an assertion often claimed and yet never verified, as the Straussian neocons, as Machiavellian liars and deceivers, are not in the habit of backing up their absurd claims with facts and documentation. “The operation is targeting bases of militants loyal to Zarqawi,” a senior Iraqi army officer told Agence France Presse, the Mail & Guardian reports. Translation: a lot of Iraqis will be killed.

Increasingly, Americans are growing weary of all this, since they pay the bills and will suffer the fall-out of a regional blow-out in the Middle East, promised after the United States unleashes a shock and awe campaign against Iran, probably not this month as originally speculated but sooner before later, as the Straussian neocons are running behind schedule. However, as we now live under an obvious dictatorship, with our appointed imperator avoiding Congress and signing legislation in violation of the Constitution, the neocons are not concerned with the rising tide of dissatisfaction out in the hinterlands.

If things get too bad, of course, there will be another “catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor” to whip the disaffected into shape, for as Hitler’s Reich Marshall, Hermann Goering, understood very well, “the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”