] What if there were private armies totalling 275,000 men,
] armed with machine guns, assault rifles (legal again!),
] rocket-propelled grenades, and mortar launchers, hiding
] out in dangerous urban areas of cities all over the
] country? What if they completely controlled Seattle,
] Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas,
] Denver and Omaha, such that local police and Federal
] troops could not go into those cities?
]
] What if the Air Force routinely (I mean daily or weekly)
] bombed Billings, Montana, Flint, Michigan, Watts in Los
] Angeles, Philadelphia, Anacostia in Washington, DC, and
] other urban areas, attempting to target "safe houses" of
] "criminal gangs", but inevitably killing a lot of
] children and little old ladies?
]
] What if there were virtually no commercial air traffic in
] the country? What if many roads were highly dangerous,
] especially Interstate 95 from Richmond to Washington, DC,
] and I-95 and I-91 up to Boston? If you got on I-95
] anywhere along that over 500-mile stretch, you would risk
] being carjacked, kidnapped, or having your car sprayed
] with machine gun fire.

What if America was Iraq?