How many remember these words from the 2003 State of

[shraby]

the Union address that Bush delivered? Was this a reference to the secret program? I brought this over from a discussion on DailyKos about the newly discovered secret program.

"Bush claimed that "more than 3,000 suspected terrorists" had been arrested worldwide – "and many others have met a different fate." His face then took on the characteristic leer, the strange, sickly half-smile it acquires whenever he speaks of killing people: "Let's put it this way. They are no longer a problem."

In other words, the suspects – and even Bush acknowledged they were only suspects – had been murdered. Lynched. Killed by agents operating unsupervised in that shadow world where intelligence, terrorism, politics, finance and organized crime meld together in one amorphous, impenetrable mass. Killed on the word of a dubious informer, perhaps: a tortured captive willing to say anything to end his torment, a business rival, a personal foe, a bureaucrat looking to impress his superiors, a paid snitch in need of cash, a zealous crank pursuing ethnic, tribal or religious hatreds – or any other purveyor of the garbage data that is coin of the realm in the shadow world."

<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/14/753350/-Who-Was-on-the-Assassination-List>

[Lasher]

1. I didn't remember that but thanks for reminding me.

At the time I'm sure I just thought he was just pulling a Saint Ronnie.

[Hardrada]

2. Yes, I do and thought it one his viler moments.

Amazing it has not been remembered more here.

[RussBLib]

3. He got a huge round of applause for it

It made my skin crawl, witnessing the bloodlust in the room that day.