Magnet For Evil (Dowd alert)

The New York Times ^ | 08/20/03 | Maureen Dowd

[paul51]

We just have to slug it out

So be it. Are we going to have to listen to the bellyaching all the way? All it does is encourage the enemies.

[dighton]

As she's a sad case, let #15 stand.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Even the Bush people, who tend to look at excruciatingly difficult problems and say no prob, were shaken by yesterday's carnage, which delivered a terrible truth: just because we got Uday and Qusay, Iraqi militants are not going to stop blowing up Westerners.

Dear God, is she really this stupid? Did anyone think we would cease to be targets to these nuts, at any point?

[cyncooper]

officials ginned up links between Saddam and Al Qaeda.

She bases her charge that a link was "ginned up" on what?

Bush officials, who before the war also overdramatized the connection between Saddam and the Ansar al-Islam militants in northern Iraq

She says this was overdramatized based on what?

By starting her screed by saying these attacks are the creation of the Bush administration due to their "conjuring" up a threat, she truly shows that it is she, Maureen Dowd, who is trading in evil.

What a disingenuous sow.

[Southack]

"Since America began its occupation, Iraq has become the mecca for every angry, hate-crazed Arab extremist who wants to liberate the Middle East from the "despoiling" grasp of the infidels."

No wonder al qaeda attacked the UN at their hotel headquarters in Iraq this morning!

Poor Ms. Dowd, she doesn't even realize that she's capitulated her own argument!