Blind Man's Bluff

[phantom power]

Kevin says that World Wars have started over less than this and that's absolutely true. Bush may have pushed this country to the point where the only option it has is military force because nobody believes a word our government says. This may be the scariest moment we've faced since 9/11.


Update: Just to scare everybody witless even more on a Tuesday morning, Josh Marshall writes:

It is also not too early to point out that the evidence is there for the confluence of two destructive and disastrous forces -- hawks in the administration's Cheney faction whose instinctive bellicosity is only matched by their actual incompetence (a fatal mixture if there ever was one), and the president's chief political aides who see the build up to an Iran confrontation as the most promising way to contest the mid-term elections. Both those groups are strongly motivated for war. And who is naive enough to imagine a contrary force within the administration strong enough to put on the brakes?

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008182.php

Not me. These people are like cornered animals desperate to recapture that bullhorn moment and redeem their failed ideology. It's a very, very dangerous combo.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114477930524847497