The Missile Shield and Iraq once again demonstrate that we know how to wage war and waste tremendous amounts of money pursuing wars. But we have a problem with peace. Perhaps peace isn't good business. Perhaps peace means a status quo that threatens the grab for power and profits. Perhaps peace is such a scary concept for that minority population that hold political power, that they will do anything to avoid it.

And as taxpayers we foot the bill for their paranoia and war games. I'm not surprised that there's a push for electronic voting using closed systems. For now we have the money and the power of choice - theoretically. Get closed voting systems in, systems that have no accountability or verifiability, and we give our power of choice to those - ta, da! - already in power. And they can continue to spend our money on lame projects like a Missile Shield or for unnecessary invasians like Iraq.