Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?

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To be honest, I do not believe that they would actually drop it themselves.

After all, it's not like they ever actually said that Saddam was directly responsible for 9/11.

But, according to a former Bushkevite named Jack Goldsmith at least, they sure as heck wanted somebody to drop it.

Despite being a far-rightist himself Mr. Goldsmith could not stomach the evisceration of the American Constitution by Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo et al. and thus he helped generate the ammunition that James Comey and John Ashcroft used to fight back, even in hospital rooms.

As a result, according to an upcoming article in the New York Times magazine by Jeffrey Rosen, Goldsmith was often on the wrong end of tirades from one of Dick Cheney's most right-handed of way far gone right-sided men that were filled to bursting with wrong-headed hubris, David Addington.

Here is one example that involved leaks associated with the infamous NYT front page piece by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau on warrantless wiretapping:

Goldsmith emphasizes that he was not opposed to investigating the leak , which he agreed with President Bush did “great harm to the nation.” In addition, he shared the White House’s concern that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act might prevent wiretaps on international calls involving terrorists. But Goldsmith deplored the way the White House tried to fix the problem, which was highly contemptuous of Congress and the courts. “We’re one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious [FISA] court,” Goldsmith recalls Addington telling him in February 2004.

Did you get that?

One bomb away.

One domestic bomb away.

And they knew they would be able to get everything they ever wanted.

Even Roger Waters at his most lyrically twisted could never have imagined such evil tucked away in all that banality.


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Glen Greenwald, as is often the case, gets right to the heart of the matter.

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