secondly, bloody bush v. gore. but for bush v. gore, there would have been no iraq war.ry penny spent in iraq, every drop of blood of americans, our allies and on the iraqis, is on the heads of those incredibly corrupt justices that gave us that decision. host: let's let mr. zirin respond. guest: i don't know quite where to begin. i agree with you that bush v. gore was a partisan decision. it was a 5-4 decision. but later on "the new york times" recounted the vote throughout the state of florida and bush would have won the state of florida if the court had allowed the counting to continue. i don't think it would have hanged the outcome as scalia argued later if they had decided the other way. i don't think that the justices should pick the president. that's not what was intended. that's what madison wrote. i think that was an unfortunate decision for the court. as to the ethics of justice thomas, whom i have a great deal of respect for, the supreme court, unfortunately, is not bound by the cannons of judicial ethics. that's why ginsberg really didn't do anything wrong wh