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Sure, Sid Blumenthal knows his onions and can weave a nice factual polemic, but what here couldn't be said about most men who've clawed it to the top? It's funny to see Kissinger portrayed as some kind of good guy out flanked by a dirty fighter. I'll be Blumy himself has written someone about what a dark, conspiratorial lizard ol' Henry is. And Clinton: he became president because he was an excellent graduate student in Poly Sci?
Give me a break! You don't like Cheney's policies, that should be your sole topic. Spare me the argument that Machiavellianism is rare and evil in American (or French, Italian, etc.) politics. Sometimes I really do think liberals are naive: look at them mocking the prosecution of Padilla, as if he's Rosa Parks or something.