[jaguar]

It's more complex than that, it states quite clearly it would start on a very small scale and slowly spread, being an 'undenyable war' by 2008, that's 4 years to slowly boil.

Ok, lets play scenarios.
imagine there is a major fuckup, on a big scale, calling say, 15-20% of the votes into question, the republicans claim the votes are theirs and refuse a recount, small groups start low level gurilla warfare, street defacement campaigns, the militas start getting more recruits, civil rights get futher restriced due to another terrorist attack or due to the campaign itself, causing further support. Play out.

When you look back at history the roots of so many things are not obvious at the time.