Salon/Huffington: The White House cowards are worse than its maniacs

[kskiska]

Woodward's shocking book provides definitive proof, if anyone still needed any, that Cheney, Libby and Rumsfeld are raving zealots. But the hottest fires of hell should be reserved for spineless enablers like Powell -- who saw the madness and still went along.

For the past year, I've been studying and writing about the fanatics running the White House and the fools on both sides of the aisle who have enabled them to prevail.

Bob Woodward has now given us a chilling behind-the-scenes look at how this dysfunctional dynamic drove us to war in Iraq -- providing devastating snapshots of both the evidence-be-damned zealotry of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their minions, and the craven capitulation of White House enablers Powell, Tenet, Rice and Hughes.

Woodward's portrait of this last group is particularly damning: an assemblage of cowards and sycophants who knew full well that the truth was being sacrificed on the altar of Dick Cheney's "fevered" obsession with Saddam, but who did nothing to stop the butchery. A very special Circle of Hell must be reserved for them.

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We see a president for whom staying the course -- even if the course is leading us over the edge of a cliff -- is a badge of honor, and for whom a questioning mind-set is anathema reserved for, well, wimps. And George the Younger was going to have none of that this time around. Sorry, Dad. Bush is also terrifyingly insulated; if it wasn't coming from Cheney or Rummy -- or Prince Bandar -- he wasn't listening.

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http://salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/04/23/fools/index.html

[Melodybe]

1. I Love Arianna! She was great tonight on the Daily Show.

My favorite part of the article:

"In Dante's "Inferno," deceivers are sentenced to have their souls encased in flames, hypocrites are forced to wear a cloak weighted with lead, and those who use their powers of persuasion for insidious ends are doomed to suffer a continual fever so intense that their body sizzles and smokes like a steak tossed on a George Foreman grill. Maybe Satan will give Powell a three-afflictions-for-the-price-of-one deal."

One of my friends and I have often discussed which ring in hell the mediawhores get to be in, it's fun.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. "Dante's Inferno"

What really amazes me is that Dante knew his fate if he did not change his ways. This has got to be the sign of a sick person.

[MissMarple]

4. Perhaps she could guest host with Al Franken.

It would be like old times. :D

[Raster]

3. thank goddess for Arianna...

...I like a woman with cajonnes...