With my apology, I am taking the liberty of posting my comment, slightly modified, on rdrover’s posted article Where Are The Voices Of Dissent?  This snowballed in response to several good points in rdrover’s excellent article, which I recommend to you. 
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Contented Countrymen, clever leaders:
 
In reference to rdrover’s first paragraph, Give them bread and circuses.

"Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights."
Julius Caesar
 
I have feared for 5 years that Sparus Dubyius Ingnoramus and his shrewd minions, in conjunction with a bad case of consumeritis that has been insidiously inculcated in the fattened new Roman population, conspire to repeat history 2000 years later.

A soldier’s honor, a soldiers shame:

As to rdrover’s second point, poor Colin Powell has joined the ranks of Rommel and other great military officers that took the soldier’s creed beyond honor in the service of his Fuehrer. I do empathize with him as he mourns his loss. But, his tactical mistake to support a dishonorable war of aggression has permanently clouded a strategic life of honor and accomplishment. If only he had followed his heart and stood with the American people at that critical battle …

Rommel and others made the supreme sacrifice, however, to reclaim some vestige of their honor once it dawned on them that they were in the service of the damned.  Hopefully Colin Powell, short of that extreme sacrifice, can still be of valuable service to the cause of freedom.

The independent and sovereign state of Halliburton:

Then there’s Halliburton and the Department of Homeland Security.  Remember Alvin Toffler? He wrote Future Shock, The Third Wave, and I was surprised to find out, Powershift and War and Antiwar. I read the first two, and he was remarkably prescient. It turns out he is still writing, and has another book due out in late April. It’s called Revolutionary Wealth.

In an article in the 'Managing for Success' section of the Investor’s Business Daily based on an interview with him, the article’s author advises us that “We should realize that traditional institutions are falling apart. This includes schools, government agencies and health care. Nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s) will replace them to help society function.” (Getting Ready for Future Shocks, by Doug Tsuruoka, IBD, February 6, 2006)

While there are other talking points, all pretty much aimed as one would expect at business management interests, the article elaborated later on NGOs.
 
(Ok, ok.  Hold on.  I haven’t really digressed.  I am getting to my Halliburton as NGO point.  Stick with me.)

“One example might be AARP, which was once called the American Association of Retired persons. AARP is offering more services as the number of baby boomers swells.”

Keep in mind that AARP was instrumental in allowing Congress to pass Bush's prescription drug can-of-worms pharmaceutical industry windfall profits gift legislation to confuse and indenture the Average American with its smoke screen of choices and questionable savings which is bearing the easily predicted fruits of chaos, pain and suffering. Whew!

Another example of an NGO, the Red Cross, was presented in juxtaposition with FEMA, which was held up as a prime example of a “traditional institution”. By all accounts, the Red Cross was much more effective in the Gulf Coast relief effort than was FEMA.  Fasteddie is the resident authority on the Katrina Debacle, and might have something to say about this.

This is a looooong winded way of asking rdrover and others if the sovereign corporate nation of Halliburton qualifies as one of them there NGOs?

"Toffler says business managers should start looking at NGOs as potential allies and partners."

This has dire ramifications, and a legitimate question arises within this context concerning Bush’s faith based initiatives. Are he and his dark minions positioning the NGOs of the religious right to partake of Toffler’s prediction for our future?
 
Iran and Prophecy:
 
In reference to rdrover’s pole on Iran, there are prophetic implications that I would like to cover in a future article or set of articles.  Bush’s (and DeLay's and other minions') avowed intention to shape the coming world in the image of their interpretation of the Book of Revelations should be your backdrop for studying this development.  More on that, maybe, some other time.
 
And the war drums are beating again.  Let me share a letter-to-the-editor sent during Bush’s frenzy to be a "The War President" (Not published, of course - The Arizona Repbulican wasn't listening much to the unpatriotic dissenters.)  Notice that I even gave them a choice of titles:
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Getting Thumped! (or Hail Caesar!)
 
George Bush is president.  The war drums are thumping, and layoffs continue with a vengeance.  Our family is on the road to Arizona, everything we own in rental trucks, two generations in search of jobs.
 
George Bush has admonished us to buy a house to keep the economy rolling.  My wife comments on the steady stream of rental units passing us in the opposite direction.  I reply “That’s George Bush’s America on the move!” looking for jobs in 1991.
 
Fast-forward a decade.  George Bush is president…  Is this a bad dream?  
 
The economy?   Never mind.  Thump! Thump!  That’s familiar, but Jr. has a frightening new agenda.  Constitutional guarantees?  Thump! THUMP!!   Democratic dissent?   THUMP!  THUMP!!   World cooperation?  Thump that – hail Caesar!!
 
Robert Robb, in “War is legitimate campaign issue”, argues that the war, as well as the economy and prescription drugs, is an important issue that should be put before the electorate.  The difference is that the economy and prescription affordability are real. Dubya is manufacturing the war as an issue.
 
American workers are required to “multi-task”.  Is it too much to expect that “Julius” Bush could get off the war drums and do the same?
 
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Thumpity Thumpity Thump!  Fast forward again.  Iran, here we come!!
 
Sound familiar?