Letters to the Editor
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The "C" word
It shouldn't be hard to figure out why Gonzales won't quit. To a man and/or woman, "liberal" or "progressive" writers and pundits will not refer to the Bush regime as a criminal gang, when that is exactly what it is. For Gonzales to resign would be to expose this criminal gang to further vulnerability, and likely impeachment and prosecution.
For similar reasons, Bush must invade Iran. If his war trajectory stops or reverses direction, the momentum he has built over the past 6 ½ years starts turning against him. The only direction to go is backwards, and that means investigations of the fraud, theft, murder, torture, lies, negligence and incompetence that are the essential nature of Bush's presidency.
People are doing all kinds of theorizing about Bush's "mindset," his "philosophy," his "principles," and his "legacy." Please. He is a sociopath. There is no mystery there, no depth, no "guiding principles" other than feeding off his fellow-man, of the caper, the swindle, the heist, the hit, the con and the hustle. If you understand him as a criminal, he becomes entirely predictable, and easy to overcome.
The only reason analysts and opinion-makers speak and write of Bush and his gang member as inadequate public servants and promoters of bad "policy" is because they are essentially bound to the conventional wisdom for professional reasons. To refer to Bush and his gang members as common criminals is, in the words of Noam Chomsky, beyond the bounds of thinkable thought.
Joe Conason is one of the great writers in "America" today. I find it disappointing that he self-censors about the Bush crime family. It could be brought to justice much sooner if people would call it what it is.