* For Dubya, a gift that keeps on giving. Six special prosecutors. One each for
invading Iraq, illegal wire-taps, lies about global warming, torture, Iran’s nuclear capability,
and, for good measure, one for all the sins not covered on that list.
* For the Knoxville News-Sentinel and other media who've soft-pedaled the truth about Dubya by
silencing his critics, a lump of coal from a strip mine near you.
* For Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Backbone
and foresight. Items to replace the rubber stamps you wield for arms makers, energy companies,
the gun lobby and others.
* For Democrats generally, courage to take a good hard look at the weapons trade, once and
future allies, health insurance, corporate accounting, energy, the space program, the war on drugs,
the plight of veterans and much else. Time is running out to prove you're the visionaries you claim
to be or just another gaggle of hacks on the path of least resistance.* For torturers and excusers of torture. An evening with one Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, who was
kidnapped and pressured into telling lies that helped launch us into Iraq, maybe the worst foreign
policy fiasco this country ever made.
