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Transcript Joe Lieberman:

LIEBERMAN: That’s up to Israel obviously, but I would say that obviously Israel is first in the line of Iranian fire. And it represents an existential threat to Israel. But you know who is next? The Arab countries in the Middle East and they’re worried about the Iranian program and want us to act strongly to stop it. And we’re next! Because Ahmadinejad in Tehran constantly leads the mobs in shouts of death to America. And they mean it.

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The handy "Ebogjonson Anton Scalia Bush v. Gore v. Boumediene v. Bush Death Counter"

Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts

Reflecting how the case divided the court not only on legal but, perhaps, emotional lines, Justice Scalia said that the United States was “at war with radical Islamists,” and that the ruling “will almost certainly cause more Americans to get killed.”

“The nation will live to regret what the court has done today,” Justice Scalia said. [full story]

Personally, I think more Americans have been killed by Scalia's vote to give the 2000 election to Bush than will EVER be killed by today's decision that trials of enemy combatants must adhere and conform to the US Constitution. What did Scalia say about that 2000 vote again? Oh, right: "Get over it. That's so old now."

Do I think that zed tally above might someday increase? Of course it might. It's a dangerous world, and it's certainly within the realm of hypothetical possibility that court proceedings adhering to Constitutional requirements might let someone go free who will go on to kill Americans. That would indeed be a terrible tragedy, but, that being said, I'm pretty confident that the number on the right - i.e, the number of Americans killed as a direct result of a Bush v. Gore vote that installed an Impostor President who then went on to lead us into the greatest strategic and foreign policy blunder in American history - well, that number will always and forever be the bigger tally. Scalia's claim that Americans will be killed by Boumedniene is a tendentious, manipulative mix of fortune-telling, unfounded hypotheticals and existential inevitabilities, but it's just a plain fact that the vote Scalia thinks we should "get over" made possible an illegal war of choice that has killed 4096 Americans to date, and that will continue to get more American civilians and soliders killed for years to come.

Moreover, it seems to me that the whole point of, you know, defending the Constitution (which is to say, defending principle), is that it can be difficult, sometimes mortally so. Scalia and company are classic examples of craven bed-wetter conservatives who are willing to sell out any value or principle in order to: A) maintain power and B) feel "protected." As Justice Kennedy wrote in Boumediene's majority opinion, "the laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."

[EBOG NOTE: I'll be updating the counter periodically, so the numbers in the title and the graphics will, unfortunately, slowly grow more and more out of sync.]