What the hell?

[beautifulduckweed]

If Seymour Hersh is right about the assassination ring run by Bush and Cheney, all I can say is: that wasn't so much a Presidency as it was a 14-year-old kid's fantasy fueled solely by Tom Clancy novels and GI JOE cartoons.

"I'm the President! I can do anything! Look, I even have kung-fu grip!"

Though perhaps I'm revealing my naivete in refusing to acknowledge that ALL Presidents have their own professional death squad?

Comments

[gowanmetal.livejournal.com]

'course they do!

Also- that damn turtle. That damn shoe.

You fucking villain.

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

EHN!

[gowanmetal.livejournal.com]

noooooooo!

[skeets.livejournal.com]

I suspect that, if true, it is most certainly not a new thing. Of course, I recently read Confessions of an Economic Hitman and I'm a leeetle paranoid now.

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think this is a new thing at all--and that's the thing. I keep thinking we've learned from the shittiness of Nixon and Reagan and moved on to better things, but clearly we didn't/haven't.

[roadrunnertwice]

Hersh's ass had better not get capped before he finishes that book. CIA EAVESDROPPERS I AM TALKING TO YOU DON'T YOU WALK AWAY FROM ME >:[

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

It kind of gives me hope that dude can still find spooks who WILL talk to him. I mean, Seymour freakin' Hersch, right?

[freyley.livejournal.com]

Nothing bad happened to the folks in the Nixon and Reagan era, so why would they learn not to do it?

I think this is the first time there's been a Vice-Presidential death squad.

Also, if I could say one thing to the framers right now, I think I would tell them that the whole President is Commander-in-Chief but Congress declares war isn't going to work out all that well. It needs a little more clarity.