I have been depressed over this impending war with Iraq -and I don't really tend to get depressed. I just can't shake this feeling of doom, it almost feels worse than September 11th.

I listened to congress on NPR on and off on Tuesday. They were having a "debate" but they don't really debate, it seems, they just take turns talking. The man who introduced the debates had a strange accent that I couldn't place - it was really bothering me until he revealed that he was Hungarian. He went on to say that he had lived through war and bombings and death and destruction and that he abhorred war, BUT that the resolution giving Bush permission to launch a pre-emptive strike without the support of the international community was necessary. His logic, like almost everyone else that I heard speak was sheer madness. One democratic representative from Florida said that his constituents had strong reservations about this resolution, but that he was going to vote for it anyway. What happens when our representatives flat out refuse to represent us and acknowlege that they are doing so as they do it? I'm convinced that our system doesn't work at all and I am very very sad.

The CIA released a report today that indicates that they believe that the likelihood of Saddam attacking us unprovoked is very low, but if we attack Iraq, they believe that Iraq would be likely to respond with chemical or biological weapons. Which makes perfect sense, if you get attacked, you fight back. Who could blame them?