Ow
Arthur Silber practices slash-and-burn blogging, with a powerful indictment of the Iraq war, and of the widespread ignorance that enables it. Senator McCain is only collateral damage:
The truth is infinitely worse than that these lives have been “wasted”: these deaths have served to strengthen our enemies and weaken our own country in countless ways [...]
Circling The Wagons
It gets better. Bob Novak writes that Attorney General Gonzales “has indicated he is too busy to answer letters from Democratic congressional leaders about his firing seven U.S. attorneys involved in probes of public corruption.”
With a hunted look in his eyes, I’ll bet. “Too busy” firing political dissidents?
Different Day
That political purge of US attorneys? Attorney General Gonzales lied about it to Congress, saying to the Senate Judiciary Committee:
“I would never, ever make a change in a United States attorney for political reasons or if it would in any way jeopardize an ongoing serious investigation. I just would not do it.”
Yes, he would, [...]
