[Timeout]

Have y'all read this op-ed by David Brooks in the NY Times?...

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It's an awesome deconstruction of the "nabob-ism" of the current Washington press corps. It expresses contempt in a way I haven't seen anywhere else.

[mountaineer]

Very good column:

And for the past 10 days, all of Washington has been kibitzing over the contents of Bob Woodward's latest opus, which largely concerns events that happened between 2001 and 2003. Did President Bush eye somebody else's dinner mint at a meeting? Was Colin Powell in the loop on Iraq? When did Bush ask the Pentagon to draw up war plans?

This is crazy. This is like pausing during the second day of Gettysburg to debate the wisdom of the Missouri Compromise. We're in the midst of the pivotal battle of the Iraq war and le tout Washington decides not to let itself get distracted by the ephemera of current events.

[lodwick]

These are the crucial months in Iraq. The events in Najaf and Falluja will largely determine whether Iraq will move toward normalcy or slide into chaos.
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And what is the definition of "normalcy" for Iraq? A cobbled-together invention of the Brits whose residents delighted in hating and killing each other until they found other targets to hate and shoot.

[BigWaveBetty]

OWWWWch, that's gonna leave a mark.

Poor David Brooks, he's always the lone conservative voice on that Sunday show with Chris Matthews.