don't trust the Bush Administration

* reddhedd: "I don't trust the Bush Administration to do the right thing. Period.
That's the bottom line for me with the illegal NSA domestic spying mess and every other problem that has come down the pike: I don't trust this Preznit to make a decision based on what is right for the American public -- but, rather, I believe this Administration will do whatever it takes, no matter how illegal or immoral, to prop themselves up and maintain power. Perhaps it's my own personal bias -- I haven't felt this way about any other Republican Administration, to be honest, so it's not a liberal versus conservative thing, but something that I find inherently wrong about this particular group of malignant cronies." (link)

* congrats to emptywheel for her post about Libby's defense team which i pointed to the other day - FDL and atrios both have acknowledged her work.

* "(Wes) Clark made what seemed to me a sensible case against phased withdrawal on a timetable. When we're ready to go, either because we've gotten what we can get or because we've decided that we can't get what we want, we should just pack up and go, quickly. Once we've announced a timetable, we've mostly lost our leverage." (link)

* "(Wes) Clark was chillingly detailed about the nature of a possible military intervention to take out Iran's nuclear program: 14 days, 4000 air sorties, some special forces operations on the ground to penetrate the labs buried under schools and hospitals. He thought the whole thing could be done without many U.S. casualties, and that we could destroy Iranian command & control and put a major dent in its nuclear weapons acquisition process.
The problem, according to Clark, — in Iran as in Iraq — is what to do after "Mission Accomplished."" (link)