From both Afghanistan AND Iraq.

Remember: You heard it here first. Nobody else, even on this 'progressive' blog, is calling to bring home the troops. No one.

I am. End this crazy-making. End this trillion-dollar adventure. End this killing, this endless mayhem, this insanity that was begun by an insane person. The sooner, the better.

End it, or embrace it, Obama. You're the Decider now.

We're talking for decades now. No one. He is the man. Judith Miller isn't fit to lick his boots.

And his latest slip of the tongue, to an Arab TV station, has been brought to Western attention via The Nation. Apparently, Dick Cheney's assassination squad ordered and carried out the hits on not only Benazir Bhutto, but also Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri and his military chief. Conventional MSM wisdom and the Bush administration have fingered Syria for the Lebanese kills, and have, along with Israel, rattled swords in anger, threatening, while Syria denied everything, just like a terrorist state would do, naturally.

This is JFK territory. This is world-class conspiracy territory. And it confirms what I've been saying for at least six years: It's not the crimes of George W. Bush & CO that we KNOW about; it's the ones we will discover that are going to astonish us all.

Sy Hersh rules journalism. No one has the contacts, the sources, the best of the behind-the-scenes persons still sane enough to recognize the madness that is our government operating in the shadows--and sickened by it. But as I read this story, it occurred to me: How long before Sy Hersh gets himself assassinated? If I had to guess...this might be the story that sends the top brass at Langley over the top.

Stay out of small airplanes, Sy, and stay off motorcycles, while you're at it.