Karl Rove has got to be nervous...

[veracity]

Maureen Dowd's article in the NY Times is a gem. Didn't we know this would happen?
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/opinion/31DOWD.html

[eleny]

1. the phrase that made my day

"wolfowitz of arabia"

thanks for the chuckle!

[aquart]

2. See, I like this one:

"and its trompe l'oeil coalition".

Poor naive Dick and George, fooled by the wiley arab, Chalabi.

Does that mean they're more to be pitied than censured?

Or impeached?

[Doug Decker]

3. This is a must read...

in my book. Although I don't usually like Ms Dowd that much, she really hit the nail(s) on the head this time.

And, "wolfowitz of arabia" is great!

What a mess.

[JohnyCanuck]

4. No shit sherlock.

Some intelligence officials "now fear that key portions of the prewar information may have been flawed," the story said. "The issue raises fresh doubts as to whether illicit weapons will be found in Iraq."

[HereSince1628]

5. Upside- WMD is still a story, downside WMD is still a story

If you can't get rid of a story, bore the people with it so that they will ignore it.

No doubt WMD was THE story of the summer, and it was not pressed by the US media. But is it news anymore?

I'd love to see the Bush and his Neocon confederates roasted.

Is there any gas left to throw on the fire? Are there any coals left to ignite it?

[TacticalPeek]

10. Could be.

The WMD have been recounted, and recounted, and recounted, but it always comes out: got oil?

[pocoloco]

6. For further insight into Cheney

(the apperant brains of the whole operation) and his chickenhawk pals, their philosophy, their mentor Leo strauss, and several other pertinent articles check out:

http://larouchein2004.net/search.htm

[pocoloco]

7. I'm sorry that should have been

http://larouchein2004.net/pages/other/2003/030409cos.htm

[newyawker99]

12. Hi theodoty!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RainDog]

8. a pattern of incompetence

this latest fiasco, the breakdown of Iraq and the resultant danger to the entire world, shows that BushCheney is not simply continuing to prove that their policies and philosophies, and thus actions, indicate incompetence, they indicate this incompetence is even greater than most Americans have been willing to admit for a long time.

However, 9-11 demonstrated startling incompetence, if the reports of intel warnings from a multitude of sources is accurate...and since so many of them have said this, it seems it is accurate that this administration chose to ignore or not believe what it did not want to believe. That is the generous explanation for their lack action.

Then their reaction to that moment was a throw the baby out with the bath water situation. Ashcroft in charge of your civil rights? Scary. Tax cuts in a time of supposed war? Unsupportable, considering those tax cuts favored those who profit from war in the first place.

Gen. Smedley Butler nailed these guys way back in the years of Hoover.

The one good thing since BushCheney, oh hell, let's be honest, since Cheney took power is that the Center for Public Integrity leaked the plans to force Patriot Act 2 with the Iraq invasion. This at least slowed down their destruction of America, if not the rest of the world.

Their incompetence is so devastating, I fear for the fate of the earth if they are not charged for their crimes (conspircacy to defraud the American people, violation of the identities protection act as a political dirty trick, lying to Congress about the energy policy task force papers, failure to uphold the Constitution by extra-Constitutional abuses of the Patriot Act...)

all condensed into one hard truth: Abuse of power.

I do not believe these men can change the way they govern. They are too much like an ideological cult. Why should all of America have to drink their political kool-aid?

[blondeatlast]

9. Must reading--bet it won't be in my morning paper.

They print Dowd a lot, but they never seem to print anything anti-admin.

Thanks and welcome to DU!
:toast:

[JaneQPublic]

11. Excellent column!

It should be required reading for all Americans.

This line pretty well sums up foreign policy under the Shrub administration:

"So far, American foreign policy has been guided by the vice president's gloomy theories that fear and force are the best motivators in the world, that war is man's natural state and that the last great superpower has sovereign authority to do as it pleases without much consultation with subjects or other nations."