He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. -- Napoleon

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. -- Lactantius

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. -- Gandhi

As fear is close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness. -- Jawaharlar Nehru

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular.  -- Edward R. Murrow

As Democrats approach this election season, there is only one message that we need spread to the American people:

When Donald Rumsfeld warns, as he did in his speech at the American Legion Convention in Salt Lake City last week, about "a new type of fascism" he is correct, but in the opposite manner from the intent of his explosive remarks.

When Democrats fight back by flailing at Rumsfeld and stating that he should leave for advocating the wrong policies regarding the Iraq War the question that remains is:  If Rumsfeld leaves before sundown what kind of replacement will surface?  After that the corollary question should be asked of, "Will a definitive policy change be made?"

The most cursory look at the Cheney-Bush playbook provides one resounding answer - there will be no change.  The reason is that the game plan for global empire established when Bush's father was in office and declared the dawning of a New World Order is looming ever larger with breakneck rapidity.

Rumsfeld is one of the "good old boys" of the Project for the New American Century.  This is the gang that invoked a New Pearl Harbor in a famous position paper as it sought to mold the world in accordance with its image.  

While many Democrats are content to let the right rip itself to shreds through statements ever more disconnected from reality, there are those -- on the right and elsewhere -- who have insisted the Democrats have to be more than critics.  If you're going to rail against what the president is doing, say the Republicans, then you have to present a plan of your own.

Most Democrats can be seen smiling and shaking their heads.  Why present a plan and give the Republicans a target for their own criticism, when the right is already doing such a fine job of soiling its own bed?

Listen closely, because you may never hear this again: I think the Republicans are right.