“We’ve been treated to some astonishingly vile images over the last two weeks: office workers hurling themselves into a hundred-floor-high abyss. A gaping, smoldering hole in the financial center of our greatest city. George W. Bush passing himself off as a patriot, even as he disassembles the Constitution with the voracious glee of a piranha skeletonizing a cow. Now we know why 7,000 people [initial casualty estimates were high] sacrificed their lives — so that we’d all forget how Bush stole a presidential election. . . . Bush has capitalized on a nation’s grief, confusion and anger to extort a political blank check payable in young American blood.”