"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY), 1925-1968; speaking to the largest integrated audience ever assembled in Cape Town, South Africa on June 6, 1966 (two years, to the day, before his assassination)

"Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in our world. Politics is about doing well for people." Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN), 1944-2002

"Look, our strategy is to create chaos, to create a vacuum... We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation." George W. Bush

"If we let our [imperial] vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don?t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now." Richard Perle, former chairman of and current advisor to the Bush Defense Policy Board; called by Beltway insiders 'The Prince of Darkness'

"We have all been here before; we have all been here before." Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

DejaVu is dedicated to the memory of Senators Paul Wellstone (D-MN), 1944-2002, and Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY), 1925-1968, who embodied American ideals and were ultimately consumed by the forces they fought hard to constrain; and to the 'Four Jersey Moms' who paid the ultimate sacrifice on 9/11 and never wavered in their search for truth- even when the Bush Gang refused them and the rest of us would have been content to ignore them.

I'd also like to express my deepest gratitude to the journalists and assorted muckrakers who did most of the hard work before I even knew there was a problem, and especially to BuzzFlash.com, who both inspired DejaVu and made it possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank J. Roper, JG and Sally, all of whom encouraged me to continue, and Elizabeth, who let me know when I'd spent too much time "staring at the monster."

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