Olbermann's Special Comment on Iran's nukes

I haven't posted a Keith Olbermann in a while, but this one is certainly worth sharing - a Special Comment on the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that states that Iran gave up its nuclear program some time ago.

Of course, the war-mongering administration wasn't going to take this news sitting down.

There's not much I can add to this one, other than to say I whole-heartedly agree. Anyone who has been even remotely paying attention ought to be frightened at the roads Bush would love to take us down. The only thing stopping the president and his war cabinet are (God help us) mostly spineless Democrats, and Americans who speak out against another war. I'll go to my grave believing that Bush would have already drummed up a war against Iran had the Democrats not retaken Congress last year. Bush may get his war yet, and I still say that most American's won't care, as long as someone else is doing the fighting.

Probably the only way there will be any sort of significant uprising/backlash against the Bush administration, no matter where we fight and no matter how flimsy the justification, is if there is a draft. Bush knows this, and that's why the military has a massive army of private contractors, who are answerable to no one but the Pentagon, and ultimately, Bush.

My favorite passage from the clip above:

A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.

It doesn't get much more succinct than that.

h/t Crooks & Liars