Fair Warning
Would it ruin your whole day to believe that the President has an irrational belief that his legacy involves preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, that to him this means regime change in Iran, and therefore discussions are underway to achieve these goals through the American use of NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
If so, then you probably don't want to read the new article by America's most accomplished investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. What with the irony inherent in using nuclear weapons to stop a country from developing nuclear weapons, and the images of Pentagon guys trying to talk the White House out of the idea and failing, I don't want to be responsible for your reaction.
I'm having a hard enough time dealing with my own dreadful imaginings of what would happen if the world's terrorists weren't just ticked off about air bases in Saudi, but about glowing holes in the world's only Muslim theocracy. (One imagines they might find it a tad bit easier to stumble upon a 'misplaced' Pakistani nuke or two. It would be a bad time to be living in a port city.)
So, if you're the kind of person who would get upset, by all means don't read that article.
If instead you would rather cling to the fading hope that someone will have enough influence to stop the mad boy-king, here's a fun distraction: it looks like Shrub is gearing up the machinery to throw Dickie under the bus. As they say, for George Bush, loyalty only runs one way.
I'm sure this same unnamed lawyer could tell you that W. is "shocked, shocked!" to find such things happening in the Office of the Vice President.
If so, then you probably don't want to read the new article by America's most accomplished investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. What with the irony inherent in using nuclear weapons to stop a country from developing nuclear weapons, and the images of Pentagon guys trying to talk the White House out of the idea and failing, I don't want to be responsible for your reaction.
I'm having a hard enough time dealing with my own dreadful imaginings of what would happen if the world's terrorists weren't just ticked off about air bases in Saudi, but about glowing holes in the world's only Muslim theocracy. (One imagines they might find it a tad bit easier to stumble upon a 'misplaced' Pakistani nuke or two. It would be a bad time to be living in a port city.)
So, if you're the kind of person who would get upset, by all means don't read that article.
If instead you would rather cling to the fading hope that someone will have enough influence to stop the mad boy-king, here's a fun distraction: it looks like Shrub is gearing up the machinery to throw Dickie under the bus. As they say, for George Bush, loyalty only runs one way.
WASHINGTON - President Bush declassified sensitive intelligence in 2003 and authorized its public disclosure to rebut Iraq war critics, but he did not specifically direct that Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, be the one to disseminate the information, an attorney knowledgeable about the case said Saturday.See, that whole Libby thing with the outing of the CIA agent and all, W. didn't know a thing about it. All "excessive zeal" in Cheney defending the President. All the President wanted was for Cheney to put out the very important information to rebut those baseless claims that the administration had misled us about Saddam's nuclear weapons program. Cheney took it from there, and, whoopsie, must have gotten a little carried away. Overly loyal and all that.
Bush merely instructed Cheney to "get it out" and left the details to him, said the lawyer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case for the White House. The vice president chose Libby and communicated the president's wishes to his then-top aide, the lawyer said.
I'm sure this same unnamed lawyer could tell you that W. is "shocked, shocked!" to find such things happening in the Office of the Vice President.
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