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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 05:05 PM
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Flashback: Kathleen Parker gloats when Saddam statue falls
she could run this again now, just replace the statue references with references to yesterday's election.


http://www.townhall.com/columnists/kathleenparker/kp20030412.shtml

What was that whimpering sound? Oh that. It's just the "Yes, but" crowd formerly known as the "anti-war pundits." Ignore them.

Saddam's statue had barely hit the ground in central Baghdad before America's armchair doomsayers began harrumphing a new caveat in which to couch this unseemly turn of events. One might almost think they didn't want Saddam to fall.

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It's also hard to be humble when you're right, but guess who is both? Guess who first cautioned against glibness, hubris, immodesty and arrogance? Those mean men Dowd can never bring herself to address as adults: her Bushy, Rummy and Wolfie. The lead players in this epochal drama have spoken with the restraint and authority of grown-ups undistracted by childish antics, either from the pacifist nursery or from exuberant Iraqis tasting freedom, in some cases for the first time. "Let them rant" or "Let them loot," as the case may be, is an attitude of tolerance born of higher sights.

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No doubt the antis and naysayers, who seem to favor any old status quo to the frightening prospect of upheaval, will lurch again from whimpering near-death to unleash new protestations. Little matter. They have proven themselves irrelevant to today's reality, which includes a freed Iraqi people for whom the operative conjunctive phrase isn't "Yes, but" but "Yes, and."

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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 05:08 PM
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1. Is that an old picture of her? She looks young enough to ship out.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 05:11 PM
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2. that's actually a picture of Reese Witherspoon
here's what Parker really looks like:

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gizmo1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 08:30 PM
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3. Is she related to ann coulter?
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