Don't bomb Iran

A four thousand five hundred pound bunker buster would lead the attack on Iran, according to Randi Rhodes' show of June 12 -- she has all the documentation to back the information on her website.

I don't think half the people in this country know what Iran looks like, and that the same amount of people would know what that initial bomb would look like. In other words, about as many people as think through the phrase "Rockets Red Glare" when singing the Star Spangled Banner. Or as many people who think through the logic of still calling Roger Clemens "The Rocket" when he hasn't been a fastball pitcher for nearly a decade.

Roger Clemens is still a great pitcher, but he does so by "hitting spots" -- placing the ball in key locations that are hard to hit. In other words, he knows precisely what he is doing with the ball.

As a citizen, I would like as precise knowledge of what, why and how we risk anyone's life before we do so. But, I am well aware that more people are worried about the Yankees future than are necessarily aware of or immediately concerned about the state of our country.

I don't think people are stupid. I think people are paralyzed by a loss of connection between their actions and their respective results. We vote, we get a different president than the one for whom we voted, not because few of us chose him, but because the Supreme Court said that our choice wasn't important enough to discern. We go to vote, and someone asks us to prove our identity in ways that no one asks us to when we use our credit cards. Even those who got who they voted for did so, probably, expecting honest information and actions.

None of us got that.