"Well, nobody has ever wrecked the Bill of Rights as he has. Other presidents have dodged around it, but no president before this one has so put the Bill of Rights at risk. No one has proposed preemptive war before. And two countries in a row that have done no harm to us have been bombed."
No one except Nixon, and Johnson, and Roosevelt, and Wilson, and Lincoln, and Jefferson, and every other wartime president in history.
Argh.
And the idiocy of that last sentence is so transparent it makes me want to chew my own foot off. Iraq is debatable, I suppose, though not as debatable as Vidal would have it, but the notion that Afghanistan never did anything to us? I'm still coughing up the particulate remains of people who might argue otherwise.
Vidal is a sack of shit. Not to put too fine a point on it or anything.
Sean
So what are you trying to say, exactly, Sean? 
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