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<p>'Why Are We in Iraq?' Meet Norman Mailer, Third Cousin of the Rational Op-Ed.</p> <p>"With their dominance in sport, at work and at home eroded, Bush thought white American men needed to know they were still good at something. That's where Iraq came in. . . .</p>

<p>"With their dominance in sport, at work and at home eroded, Bush thought white American men needed to know they were still good at something. That's where Iraq came in. . . .</p> <p>When The Wall Street Journal asked me to react to Mr. Mailer's latest daft screed, I almost took a pass. I've never written an opinion piece for a newspaper before, and furthermore I know as much about Norman Mailer as I do about Mary Quant. I think they were both kinda hot for a few minutes in the '60s.</p>

We Went To War Just To Boost The White Male Ego by Norman Mailer With their dominance in sport, at work and at home eroded, Bush thought white American men needed to know they were still good at something. That's where Iraq came in ...

We went to war just to boost the white male ego.

Hollywood-Hero - 04-29-03 - This little missive was just too good to pass up -  From the Times Online:  April 29, 2003 We went to war just to boost the white male ego By Norman Mailer With their dominance in sport, at work and at home eroded, Bush thought white American men needed to know they were still good at something. That's where Iraq came in... Exeunt: lightning and thunder, shock and awe. Dust, ash, fog, fire, smoke, sand, blood, and a good deal of waste now moves to the wings. The stage, however, remains occupied. The question posed at...

With their dominance in sport, at work and at home eroded, Bush thought white American men needed to know they were still good at something. That's where Iraq came in... M/b>Exeunt: lightning and thunder, shock and awe. Dust, ash, fog, fire, smoke, sand, blood, and a good deal of waste now moves to the wings. The stage, however, remains occupied. The question posed at curtain-rise has not been answered. Why did we go to war? If no real weapons of mass destruction are found, the question will keen in pitch. Or, if more likely, such weapons are uncovered in Iraq...

An Evening with Norman Mailer and George W. Bush By Sarah Stodola --------------------------------------- Last night I saw Norman Mailer speak at Barnes & Noble in Union Square in promotion of his new book on writing, The Spooky Art. When it was over, I hopped on the subway and walked through the door of my apartment just in time to watch the State of the Union Address be delivered by President Bush. This, my friends, was shaping up to be an evening of contrasts. Before Mailer arrived, I sat for nearly an hour (you have to get to these things really...

Norman Mailer RevivedBy George ShadrouiFrontPageMagazine.com | March 12, 2003 Though he might well share the honor with William F. Buckley Jr. or Gore Vidal, there is no doubt that Norman Mailer - pugnacious provocateur, party man, icon of the radically chic, genius and relentless critic of his own country - is one of the godfathers of modern literary intellectual life as we know it. Now a venerable 80 years old, it is no surprise that Mailer is being trotted out to oppose the Bush Administration's Iraqi policy. Mailer, after all, became a cultural icon precisely because of his anti-war activities...

March 3, 2003: Why is there so often an alliance between wordsmith intellectuals -- poets, novelists, playwrights, literary critics, journalists -- and anti-democratic, anti-capitalist totalitarians? Not a day passes without a Harold Pinter, Gore Vidal, Amiri Baraka, Susan Sontag or Norman Mailer denouncing America. None of these luminaries uttered a peep of protest when the Taliban systematically destroyed centuries old cultural artifacts. Nor did they cheer the liberation of Afghanistan by force of American arms. Even when one of their own, Salman Rushdie, was threatened with death by the forces of Islamofacism, there was barely a murmur of protest against...

Media Research CenterMRC SPOTLIGHT War on Terrorism: The Celebrity View Many celebrities feel obligated to share their political opinions and the war on terrorism has been no exception. From novelist Norman Mailer’s rants about "what if the perpetrators were right" to singer Steve Earle’s soon-to-be released tribute to John Walker Lindh, the celebrity community has been a source of anti-American commentary since the war started. Here’s a selection of some of those comments.A Singer Speaks Up Country rock singer Steve Earle sang his new song about John Walker Lindh for the Today show. One line described the U.S. as the...