Dowd is obviously a shill for Islamic Arabs.
She lives in a make believe world of projection and transferance.
Meanwhile, the USA is at war with terrorism, obstructed by Dowd and the media-weenies
still on their bended knees for you-know-who.
Posted on 09/21/2002 5:58:13 PM PDT by Pokey78
WASHINGTON — Don't feel bad if you have the uneasy feeling that you're being steamrolled. You are not alone.
As my girlfriend Dana said: "Bush is like the guy who reserves a hotel room and then asks you to the prom."
As the Pentagon moves troops, carriers, covert agents and B-2 bombers into the Persian Gulf, the president, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld continue their pantomime of consultation.
When Senator Mark Dayton of Minnesota asked the defense chief on Thursday, "What is compelling us to now make a precipitous decision and take precipitous actions?" an exasperated Mr. Rumsfeld sputtered: "What's different? What's different is 3,000 people were killed."
The casus belli is casuistry belli: We can't cuff Saddam to 9/11, but we'll clip Saddam because of 9/11.
Mr. Rumsfeld offered sophistry instead of a smoking gun: "I suggest that any who insist on perfect evidence are back in the 20th century and still thinking in pre-9/11 terms."
Ah, Rummy. Evidence, civil liberties, debating before we go to war . . . it's all sooo 20th century.
Anyway, how can we have evidence when we learned last week that our evidence-gathering snoozy spooks are even more aggressively awful than we thought?
The administration isn't targeting Iraq because of 9/11. It's exploiting 9/11 to target Iraq. This new fight isn't logical — it's cultural. It is the latest chapter in the culture wars, the conservative dream of restoring America's sense of Manifest Destiny.
The Bush hawks don't simply want to go back in a time machine and make Desert Storm end with a turkey shoot. They want to travel back even farther to the Vietnam War and write a more muscular coda to that as well.
Extirpating Saddam is about proving how tough we are to a world that thinks we got soft when that last helicopter left the roof of the American embassy in Saigon in 1975.
We can't prove it with al Qaeda. That's like grabbing smoke.
So former Nixon officials Cheney and Rummy are playing out their own "Four Feathers," rescuing the lost honor of the American empire in the sands of Arabia. They want to stomp on Saddam to exorcise the specters of Vietnam and Watergate — the ethical relativism, the lack of patriotism, the postmodern angst, the loss of moral authority, the feeling that America is in decline or in the wrong, the do-whatever-feels-good Clintonesque ethos.
Dick Cheney fought multinationalism and Lynne Cheney fought multiculturalism, defending the dead white males who made the republic great. She has written a children's book, "America: A Patriotic Primer," and urged that 9/11 be a day to remember the nation's glories rather than its "faults and failings."
The Cheneys, who have been known to invite dinner guests at the vice presidential mansion to sing along to "Home on the Range," think they can restore a sunnier, more can-do mood to our society. Even if it takes incinerating Baghdad to do it.
Rummy is equally impatient with the post-Vietnam focus on imperfections and limitations. He wants to yank the boomers by their collars and make them, if not the Greatest Generation, at least a bit Greater.
This is fine with W., who stayed 50's through the 60's and stopped liking the Beatles when they got into their "weird psychedelic period." He arrived at Yale and Harvard Business School just as the white male WASP ascendancy was slipping. He was in that small coterie of bewildered guys in wide-wale corduroy trousers, Izod polo shirts and Sperry Topsiders, surrounded by wild and crazy hippies protesting the war and smoking roaches.
The Bushies want to bring back the imperial, imperious presidency. The pre-emption proclamation had the tone of Cheney Caesar and Condi Ben Her. And the resolution sent to Congress seeking authority to go after Iraq was the broadest request for executive military authority since L.B.J. got the Gulf of Tonkin resolution rubber-stamped in 1964. At least L.B.J. had to phony up the Tonkin Gulf provocation. Mr. Bush can't be bothered. "I cannot believe the gall and the arrogance of the White House," Sen. Robert Byrd bellowed.
Things are getting dangerouser and dangerouser. Karl Rove's gunning for the Democrats. Ariel Sharon's gunning for Arafat. W.'s gunning for Saddam. And Al Qaeda's still gunning for us.
Nice try Mo. You have no girlfriends. This is just the latest example of Mo having sexual fantasies about George W., but of course she won't admit to them. Mo really wants the President to take her to the prom, since she never went to hers. She was head of the decorating committee; living out all of her fantasys hanging the crepe paper & making the fruity punch.
But when the time came, she was alone in her room, beefcake magazines scattered on her bed; the smell of Aqua Velva wafting through the dimly lit room while "Stairway to Heaven" played on the hi-fi.
Maureen Down . . .THIS IS YOUR LIFE!
From Oxblog:
IMMUTABLE LAWS OF DOWD1. Ashcroft never deserves credit.
2. Offering constructive solutions to problems, instead of whining endlessly about them, is a sign of weakness.
3. The People Magazine principle: all political phenomena can be explained with reference solely to caricatures of the personalities involved ("Dubya" is stupid; "Poppy" is an aristocrat; Cheney is macho-man; etc.). Any reference to the common good or even to old-fashioned politicking is, like, so passe.
4. It is much better to be cute than coherent.
5. Maureen knows best. Her long years as a columnist (doing basically what your great-aunt Tillie does in the nursing home bull sessions, but getting paid for it) have given her deep insight into foreign relations, politics, welfare, the Constitution, and all other topics. To disagree with Maureen in any way is not only a sign of being wrong, it's a hallmark of pure evil...or at least membership in the NRA, which is pretty much the same thing.
6. It is usually possible and always desirable to name-drop and name-call in the same sentence.
7. The particulars of my consumer-driven, shamefully self-involved life reveal universal truths.
And Dana and Mo are like the girls that assume that room is meant for sexual relations with them. And are disappointed when it is not.
Hey, Mo. Did you mean "life partner" or "significant other"? Have you turned to the girls since Michael Douglas dumped you?
Dowd is obviously a shill for Islamic Arabs.
She lives in a make believe world of projection and transferance.
Meanwhile, the USA is at war with terrorism, obstructed by Dowd and the media-weenies
still on their bended knees for you-know-who.
So maybe you should stick to what you know about........................ sorry can’t think of anything Ms. Dowd knows about.
There's talk of B-2s being flown to Diego Garcia: which (begging General Dowd's pardon) is NOT in the Persian Gulf.
If anything, Dowd is a cut below People Magazine.
1) You negotiate with the enemy with your knee in his chest and your knife at his throat.
Some people just can't grasp simple truths.
"Aim small, miss small."
M
Well you told Bush off but good. I can tell from your logical thinking that you would be the kind of person that would defend America from all enemies foreign and domestic.
But why you would want to do that, I could never imagine, hating the country the way you do? But all in all it is a good democrap argument.
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