Dowd: The Mirror Has Two Faces

[kskiska]

Why is the foreign policy nanny acting like a foreign policy ninny?

Hitting the morning shows to do damage control after David Kay's scalding admission that we flew to war on a false premise, Condi Rice made a tyro error. She mirrored.

Saddam, she told Matt Lauer, had secretively refused to account for missing stockpiles of botulinum toxin and anthrax, even though he knew he would face serious consequences: "I don't know how you could have come to any other conclusion but that he had weapons of mass destruction."

A conservative, ice-skating Brahms aficionada from Birmingham had assumed that a homicidal, grenade-fishing Sinatra aficionado from Tikrit reasoned just like her.

Bush officials, awash in the vice president's Hobbesian gloom, deduced that Saddam would not hide if he had nothing to hide. Even after all their talk about a Bernard Lewis clash of civilizations and a battle of good versus evil, they still projected a Western mind-set on Saddam.

Ms. Rice argued that the U.S. was right to conclude that Saddam had W.M.D. and attack him because the dictator was not behaving rationally. But why did she think someone President Bush deemed "a madman" would behave rationally?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/opinion/01DOWD.html

[hadrons]

1. And Dowd's an expert on having two faces ....

because one of them is her ass

[The Zanti Regent]

2. She has a face?

William Burroughs described Whoreen perfectly on pages 119-121 of Naked Lunch.

HINT: It's the part about the talking asshole

[Dudley_DUright]

3. I am amazed that she resisted her nearly uncontrollable urge

to mention Botox in every column, considering the Kerry rumors floating around. Of course they are unfounded in my opinion, but that has never stopped her before.