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Dowd's Santayana Overdose
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/28/2007 7:56:54 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it -- George Satayana.

Well and good. But being a prisoner of the past presents dangers, too. Stay tuned for an example of how reliance on a corollary of Satayana's rule went horribly wrong for the U.S.

Maureen Dowd's column of this morning "W.M.D. in Iran? Q.E.D." is the latest example of what passes for MSM wisdom on Iran. In a nutshell, the argument goes: we attacked Iraq over ill-founded concerns about WMD and got bogged down. So perish the thought of using force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dowd; iran; iraq; jimmycarter; maureendowd; modo

1 posted on 10/28/2007 7:56:55 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Your Sunday Dowd ding. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 10/28/2007 8:00:24 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Fools like Dowd will eventually learn ... unfortunately for the rest of us ... they will lean the hard way


3 posted on 10/28/2007 8:10:59 AM PDT by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Dowd is queen of the non sequitur.


4 posted on 10/28/2007 8:15:46 AM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest


Oh happy day!
5 posted on 10/28/2007 8:21:55 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If you check around, you’ll see that many on the Left think this interview is for real. They’re having a fit over Cheney’s line: “The more carrots Condi feeds ’em, the better they’ll be able to see the bombs coming.”

Lol


6 posted on 10/28/2007 8:35:56 AM PDT by nuconvert ("Terrorism is not the enemy. It is a means to the ends of militant Islamism." MZJ)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Actually Al Dowd and the NY Jihad times are MIS-remembering history. It should try actually learning and responding to facts instead of inventing them.

2003 State of the Union Speech transcript

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/28/sotu.transcript.8/index.html

Every word in this speech is as true now as when it was uttered. And unlike Saddam, Iran has made no pretense of hiding their nuke program.

7 posted on 10/28/2007 8:40:55 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Pacifism is not moral. True morality requires evil be opposed, not appeased)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I heard the WMD issue mentioned a couple of times by Dem. operatives on FOX, last week. I think that the Dems have decided it was time to dreg up that old accusation to go along with the Valerie Plame book, just like they dredge up Nixon and Watergate before every election.


8 posted on 10/28/2007 8:53:36 AM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva
They have to do something. Casualites have been declining since may. The last MNF fatality occured on 10/25, 3 days ago. On that same day however, for the first time in the war, there were NO hostile events recorded in Baghdad.

Yes, the 'rats are deeply saddened by developments in Iraq.

9 posted on 10/28/2007 9:10:46 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Interview with Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey on Saddam’s links to 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 9/11 and WMD:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/woolsey.html

10 posted on 10/28/2007 10:21:03 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: MNJohnnie
Every word in this speech is as true now as when it was uttered.

a double (triple?) helping of sophistry there, displaying a complexity of which i did not expect you capable, but then i suppose it could've been just a lucky shot.

11 posted on 10/28/2007 11:53:54 AM PDT by muleboy (muleboy303.blogspot.com)
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To: muleboy
A stunning demonstration of an even higher level of ignorance and knee jerk juvenile hysteria then your usual posting indicates. Forgot to take your medication again today I see.

By the way, does the staff at the institution where you are confined realize you have slithered into the Warden’s office to use his computer again?

So do you suppose this one time you can actually create a rational argument against the point I raised or is screaming bile at everyone who demonstrates the utter absurdity of your childish Neo Isolationist dogmas the best you can come up with?

12 posted on 10/28/2007 12:05:11 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Pacifism is not moral. True morality requires evil be opposed, not appeased)
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To: MNJohnnie

i give you credit for being smarter than i previously thought, and you call me ignorant.

in which case, perhaps you’re right.


13 posted on 10/28/2007 12:18:34 PM PDT by muleboy (muleboy303.blogspot.com)
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To: muleboy

Thank you SO much for proving my point that you are a childish twit who actually cannot create a rational argument and merely screams bile at everyone who proves you a fool under the mistake notion that screaming bile some how magically bestows a glamor of intellectual credibility on your utterly ignorant postings.


14 posted on 10/28/2007 12:22:24 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Pacifism is not moral. True morality requires evil be opposed, not appeased)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Dowd is just a has-been Barfly.
She cant get over that she was dumped for Katherine Zeta Jones...
have another Burbon Maureen....


15 posted on 10/28/2007 3:14:21 PM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: LtKerst
Alone again, naturally.


16 posted on 10/28/2007 3:41:57 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01


17 posted on 10/28/2007 6:04:51 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: Eddie01

18 posted on 10/28/2007 6:05:17 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Picture on left:
First proposed cover of “Are Men Necessary” (?) —well, I guess the bartender is....
Picture on right-—Dowd’s first communion pic.


19 posted on 10/28/2007 7:59:57 PM PDT by supremedoctrine (The only thing sourdough bread is good for is a grilled cheese sandwich, For that it's essential/)
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