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Cigar Aficianado interviews Tommy Franks:

The first step would be a nexus between weapons of mass destruction of any variety ... and terrorism ... in order to change the mannerisms, the behavior, the sociology and, ultimately, the anthropology of a society.

That goes to step number two, which is that the western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy. Now, in a practical sense, what does that mean? It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive casualty-producing event somewhere in the western world-it may be in the United States of America-that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass-casualty-producing event. Which, in fact, then begins to potentially unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps: very, very important.

CA: If that's true, why have so many critics attacked the president of the United States and tried to diminish the work of the military?

(Via the ever excellent Orcinus)
Right... We've got to militarize our country to prevent it from being militarized... We've got to destroy the Constitution in order to preserve it.... We've got to destroy the village in order to save it.

Memo to general Franks: There is nothing on earth, including any additional terrorist attack that the incompetence and cynicism of the Bush regime allows to take place, that would induce me to "question the Consitution and militarize society."

In fact, General Franks, why are you even raising the question? Could it be ... Naah...