[Hostage]

Moreover, the Bush team is such a partisan, ideological, nonhealing administration that many liberals just want to punch its lights out — which is what the Howard Dean phenomenon is all about.

BRING IT ON!

[ontos-on]

I get it, Mr. Friedman. You have to stay in good with your liberal buddies, so you make up a bogus reason to attack Bush et al. Bush waited an unnecessary 6 to 8 months for Blair and Powell's attempt to try the diplomatic multilateral approach. Did you forget that?

Also, Bush let the State Department run the immediate post war with the kabosh of the external Iraqis and the imposition of a buch of lefties such as that Boudin woman and Jay Garner, who is just this past week revealing his true colors. Do you forget these things? No, you just want contrition from Bush and Rumsfeld. You are worhtless. Your personal failings--maybe it is your wife's influence, after all-- determine this whole idiotic snit about how Bush is right, but he wasn't really. All to preserve your standing with the NYT and others.

[aculeus]

Friedman is an over-rated windbag.

A Walter Lippman wannabe who couldn't change Lippman's typewriter ribbon.

The Times' Op-Ed lineup is a national disgrace.