Wow! M. Dowd on FIRE Today! (OBL October Surprise Included!)

[Beetwasher]

The Khan Artist

--snip--

"The president is having just as hard a time finding his National Guard records as Iraqi W.M.D. — and those pay stubs look as murky as those satellite photos of trucks in Iraq."

--snip--

"Mr. Bush likes to present the world in black and white, as good and evil, even as he's made a Faustian deal with General Musharraf, perhaps hoping that one day — maybe even on an October day — the cagey general will decide to cough up Osama."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/opinion/12DOWD.html

[enki23]

1. amen. keep poisoning that damned well

the october-surprise well, that is. we can't eliminate its potential effect, but we can lessen it if we can get the jaded message out loudly, and widely enough. i'm planting seeds of doubt wherever i go.

[liberalnurse]

2. I bet we won't see the

*bush in a flight suit anytime soon......Boy, we could really have fun then......

[ewagner]

6. Right on the mark! n/t

[belle]

12. Exactly.

The best way to prevent an "October Surprise" is to make sure it won't *be* a surprise for as many people as possible.

[zbdent]

3. Republicans make a fine case for every issue being "black and white"

no gray areas.

Until one of their own gets caught.

Then, the "rule of law" is thrown out the window and the spin starts.

[rasputin1952]

4. Yep, happens EVERY time...

The list is long, the chain is a ponderous one.

So much for 'Values', they only go for someone else.

edited: sent Maureen an e-mail for her excellent op-ed piece. It helps to acknowledge thaose that are doing such a fine job.

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[truth2power]

11. I e-mailed her also.

She's really smokin' today!

[Arugula Latte]

7. Like Rush "throw other druggies in jail" Limbaugh

nt

[seemslikeadream]

5. I wonder if she's reading Greg Palast

You may never have heard of Khan Laboratories, but if this planet blows to pieces this year, it will be thanks to Khan Labs' creating nuclear warheads for Pakistan's military. Because investigators had been tracking the funding for this so-called "Islamic Bomb" back to Saudi Arabia, under Bush security restrictions, the inquiry was stymied. (The restrictions were lifted the agent told me without a hint of dark humor, on September 11.)

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=312&row=0

[librechik]

8. Yes! How can Bush claim to be stong on terror when he gives Khan a pass?

This is unacceptable. I was trying to understand Condi dancing all around questions of why they allowed this--it was obvious that they gave him a deal in exchange for revealing his customers, but why not just admit it? This is totally outrageous--they want to coddle Musharraf, a military dictator, and claim they are fighting "for freedom!" What LIES!

[1gobluedem]

9. Maureen Dowd is my heroine n/t

[BiggJawn]

10. Their Server crashed...

Guess she pissed off Rove bigtime.
Any other places we can read her column?

[rasputin1952]

13. Try this...

http://www.nytimes.com/

then just go to Op/Ed

I tried to get the full link but it was down. You'll have to sign up for the NYT's media.

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