Sidney Blumenthal’s essay in The Guardian is worth a read. Lets hope this cabal can be removed from power with a lot less damage and destruction than some others that have been holed up in bunkers in times past.

His administration has become its own republic of fear, and Bush is a prisoner to the right.

One year after his re-election President Bush governs from a bunker. “We go forward with complete confidence,” he proclaimed in his second inaugural address. He urged “our youngest citizens” to see the future “in the determined faces of our soldiers”, to choose between “evil” and “courage”. But as he listened that day, Vice-President Dick Cheney knew the election had been secured by a cover-up.

Read the Essay