Hyperbole.
i think he’s wrong; i think they’ll back down if we fight. i also think that the real radicals—the cheneys and boltons—are far fewer than the civil war analogy suggests. it’s not a country divided. it’s a big country against a small band of wackos.
our situation now is roughly analogous to that of the passengers on flight 93. when the right hijacked the first airplane, in 2000, we were caught completely by surprise. we thought it was more important to keep calm and not panic. so they flew the country into a building. they did it again in 2003, and we were still placing too much value on staying calm.
We’re one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious court.
—David Addington, Cheney aide, on FISA
