Posted on 11/11/2004 9:31:40 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
During the campaign, President Bush and Dick Cheney gave the ominous impression that there was a dire threat that terrorists could incinerate Americans at any time if that powder puff John Kerry got anywhere near the Oval Office.
Mission accomplished. Tell those wolves to scat, and let that eagle soar, baby.
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The president is putting his own counsel, Alberto Gonzales, who wrote the famous memo defending torture, in charge of our civil liberties. Torture Guy, who blithely threw off 75 years of international law and set the stage for the grotesque abuses at Abu Ghraib and dubious detentions at Guantánamo, seems to have a good grasp of what's just. No doubt we'll soon learn what other protections, besides the Geneva Conventions and the Constitution, Mr. Gonzales finds "quaint'' and "obsolete.''
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With the F.B.I. investigating Halliburton and the second-term scandal curse looming, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney want a dependable ally - and former Enron attorney - at Justice. But since the country is controlled by one party and the press has tended toward the pusillanimous, cowed by the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald as he tries to throw reporters in jail, the White House may be able to suppress any second-term problems.
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Even as Karl Rove boasts that "moral values'' swept his boss back into the White House, it never seems to occur to the president that it's immoral to endanger our troops in a war shaped by the political clock, a war with no visible enemy, no coherent plan and no exit timetable.
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The math is self-defeating. Pictures of forces taking a Falluja mosque will no doubt spur a surge of Islamic terrorist recruits, who won't be fooled by the marines' new camouflage: their Iraqi vanguard.
Just as there is talk here that John Kerry may want to run again, there is also talk that Donald Rumsfeld wants to stay on to continue his transformation of the military. Rummy's stubborn need to show we could do more with less is what kept us from having the strength to secure Iraq at the start, turning our troops into targets for a ghostly foe armed with the explosives and missiles looted by insurgents from unguarded caches.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/opinion/11dowd.html
No, Mo Do, we have an "exit strategery".
This simplifies future reference tasks.
MoDo got the "Abu Grahbi" memo, I see. At least the FAX machine at the DNC is working; nothing and no one else there is.
Did I miss something or is there a sequel to "Scanners" coming out?
is this the left wing hussy from nyc?
The Morfordization of The Jilted One proceeds apace.
I swear this woman does more drugs than attendees at Woodstock.
I am very fed up with the diatribe from this New York Times bimbo.
She's more fun to read than a Peanut's cartoon!
She is tipping over the edge IMHO----I saw her on Letterman a few months ago and I was actually embarassed for her.
There is a certain sense of resignation to her writing now that her heroes have been crushed. The cutesy, inane, sarcasm is gone and she skulks now instead of strutting. The sophomoric attempts to be clever are missing. She's gone now from being marginally irritating to irrelevant. Hardly even warrants a "Dowd Alert" anymore. Oh, well.
Sorry MoDo! It just wasn't meant to be!
I was about to be pissed. I hate reading MoDo garbage, and only started because I found out about this rule. Thank you!
I'm thinking "The Far Side," or maybe even Matt ("The Simpsons") Groenig's "Life in Hell."
The Dowd Alert is to flag people for the inevitable pictures of the lovely Mrs. Douglas, nee Miss Zeta-Jones.
Oh, that's just meeeeeeeeann!
Good work. :^D
idiot bimbo doesn't even know policy for "enemy combatants" was set during the Reagan Administration....there are not words to describe how I really feel about this low life liberal b*tch
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