Despicable

I have no words left that can adequately describe the depravity of the Bush administration. Everytime I think I can no longer be shocked, I am.

This is a must read from Kevin Drum, digging deeper into Seymour Hirsch's reporting on how intent Cheney is on starting a war with Iran. So intent that there was at least some consideration given to having U.S. soldiers kill other U.S. soldiers (themselves masquerading as Iranian gunboats) in order to gain U.S. public support for a strike. And the fact that they didn't go through with it is beside the point. That their minds could even conceive of it and discuss it as a plausible option tells us everything we need to know about how important it is that these people be held to some kind of accountability. They simply must not be allowed to populate the government ever again.