Rich - Dowd - Friedman OP-ED Links ....

[kevinmc]

FRANK RICH: Operation Freedom From Iraqis

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/05/frank-rich-operation-freedom-from.html



MAUREEN DOWD: Bush’s Fleurs du Mal

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/05/maureen-dowd-bushs-fleurs-du-mal.html


THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: The Quiet Americans

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/05/thomas-l-friedman-quiet-americans.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Thanks.

[acmavm]

2. Thomas L. Friedman? Is he the same Tom Friedman who soooooo

loudly gave props to the bush** admin for their decision to attack Iraq?

People quote Friedman now? I feel the same about Friedman as I do those fools who are so sorry they every voted for bush**. And a lot of them did it twice. Their contrition now means nothing to me. And neither does anything Friedman says.

<snip>
Friedman supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing that the establishment of a democratic state in the Middle East would force other countries in the region to liberalize and modernize. In his February 9, 2003 column for The New York Times, Friedman also pointed to the lack of compliance with the United Nations Security Council Resolution regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction:

The French position is utterly incoherent. The inspections have not worked yet, says Mr. de Villepin, because Saddam has not fully cooperated, and, therefore, we should triple the number of inspectors. But the inspections have failed not because of a shortage of inspectors. They have failed because of a shortage of compliance on Saddam's part, as the French know. The way you get that compliance out of a thug like Saddam is not by tripling the inspectors, but by tripling the threat that if he does not comply he will be faced with a U.N.-approved war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Friedman

[TwilightGardener]

3. Thank you--especially likd MoDo's article this week.

[avrdream]

4. Good stuff. Thanks.

[Demeter]

5. I Just Want to Smack Friedman After Reading That Bilge

The man is totally disconnected from American reality.

And as for Miss Dowd, this new article in no way compensates for the attack on Gore she wrote last.

And Frank Rich is right on!

[Joe Bacon]

6. Yep, Mr. "F.U." pleads for another six months

and his soulmate Whoreen goes off on her beloved Führer.

I'm just waiting for the day Whoreen goes off on her beloved Führer's looks or waistline, or when Whoreen will go after First Lady Eva Braun the way she went after Hillary?

[uberllama42]

7. I know I should be jaded by now

but the hubris of this administration is still appalling. "Goddamn those Iraqis, after all we did for them! Let's leave them to burn in that hell-hole." I'm more angry at the Democrats every day for caving and allowing the war to continue. "Beginning of the end" my ass. Aren't there any grownups in Washington?