Tuesday, July 29, 2008

It's Cover Your Ass Day

And it's nothing to celebrate. Rather, it's something to mourn.

Seven years ago today, a frantic CIA briefer hand-delivered to George Bush, who at the time was on the longest Presidential vacation in history, the urgent warning:

Remember that this was the culmination of what Richard Clarke described as months of red flags and flashing lights and warnings.


Bush's response to the CIA briefer: "All right, you've covered your ass now."


Bush then proceeded to:


Go Fishin'


Five weeks later:



It's time for a change.

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