Osama's Offspring(MAUREEN DOWD ALERT!!)

nytimes ^ | May 14,2003 | MAUREEN DOWD

[Jimmyclyde]

For your enjoyment.....

[Jimmyclyde]

BTTT

[jpl]

Mad Mo is extremely bitter nowadays because Catherine Zeta Jones has had the baby that she will never have.

[Hildy]

ENOUGH with this Zeta Jones thing. Women DO get over old boyfriends, you know.

[Mr. Bird]

So destroy it.

Yeah, just snap your fingers Dick and make them go away. Why don't they ever get it?

[nothingnew]

I never comment on Dowd articles...I'm just waiting for the pics of CZJ.

FMCDH

[Asclepius]

Buried in the rubble of Riyadh are some of the Bush administration's basic assumptions: that Al Qaeda was finished, that invading Iraq would bring regional stability and that a show of American superpower against Saddam would cow terrorists.

Precisely the opposite is the case: and the exception of al qaeda activity in Saudi Arabia only underscores the brute facts. The Arabian penninsula is al qaeda's last redoubt. Mainly because the House of Saud resisted our efforts to follow them there, their funds, their leaders. Elsewhere in Muslim world, e.g. Yemen, Pakistan, our commanders in the field have been gleefully capturing or assassinating known or suspected al qaeda operatives. So elsewhere in the Muslim world al qaeda is finished, reduced to releasing cassettes, bombing nightclubs, and granting interviews etc.

Riyad, however, is the new Kandahar.

[MrConfettiMan]

So destroy it.

*snicker*

So let it be written, so let it be done. If only it were that easy, Mo.

It will take some time to clean up the damage left behind by the Clinton years.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I'm just waiting for the pics of CZJ.

The pregnant smoking pics?

[Moonman62]

Women DO get over old boyfriends, you know.

Most of them do. Some, like Mo, don't.

[Asclepius]

Women DO get over old boyfriends, you know.

Oh, yeah. Women never get bitter. They just forgive and forget and move on.

[El Sordo]

[vrwinger]

Buried in the rubble of Riyadh are some of the Bush administration's basic assumptions: that Al Qaeda was finished, that invading Iraq would bring regional stability and that a show of American superpower against Saddam would cow terrorists.

I can't recall these assumptions ever coming from the Bush administration... I guess if she says Bush said these things, it easier for her to say "not so fast..." Can't the left argue honorably? (rhetorical question, I know)

[wideawake]

Women DO get over old boyfriends, you know.

Twenty-something women get over boyfriends fairly quickly - even ones they had really fallen for. Hey, they've got their whole lives ahead of them to meet someone just as good-looking, sweet, successful, etc.

Fifty-something women don't get over their last chance at happiness who just happens to be a famous, dashing movie star so quickly.

That one still smarts, I'll bet.

[Hildy]

Fifty-something women don't get over their last chance at happiness who just happens to be a famous, dashing movie star so quickly.

And you have personal knowledge of this ... how?

[ohioman]

Why in the hell do you take up for a low-life traitor like Dowd? She deserves a lot worse than being dumped.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Busy chasing off Saddam, the president and vice president had told us that Al Qaeda was spent. "Al Qaeda is on the run," President Bush said last week. "That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but surely being decimated. . . . They're not a problem anymore.""

Did Bush actually say "They're not a problem anymore"? If he did, it would be out of character, since he has never seemed to believe that terrorism can be completely wiped out, only curtailed and - hopefully - kept out of the USA. I would like to know what words Dowd omitted where those dots are; I would not be surprised if those words completely changed the meaning of the "They're not a problem anymore" comment.

[wideawake]

I've seen several women of the 40-50 age range get dumped by boyfriends whom they had hoped to spend the rest of their lives with.

These women were absolutely devastated - generally they'd spent several years of "serious" looking for the right guy who would be their "last chance" only to have the relationship fold within months - and be continuously dissected for years afterward.

I can only imagine what the amplifying effect of having a movie star thrown into the mix would be.

[Hildy]

I'm not "taking up" for her. It's just old, at this point that every single time a Dowd piece is posted, this crap comes up. We should of beating her with ideas. It's a cheap and easy (and sexist) way of discrediting her. And I think we're above that.

[Hildy]

Are you a man, or a woman?