WHAT TIMING! Just when the attorney general and the president were coming under fire for the politicized dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys, the Pentagon released a transcript of a March 10 hearing in which Guantanamo detainee Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to masterminding the 9/11 attacks. Now we can get back to the Bush administration's preferred topic: What a heck of a job it's doing in the war on terror.
... The 9/11 commission report noted the "grandiose" nature of KSM's "true ambitions." ... What he longed for "was theater, a spectacle of destruction with KSM as the self-cast star."
"We will disrupt their workday with a mildly offensive blinking neon light!"
"Death to America!!!!"
"Death to America!!!!"
