Maureen Dowd: No Way Out

[Veronica.Franco]

Maureen Dowd: No Way Out


“Everything you’ve heard and read is true. And I am deeply sorry about that.” Who said it?

(a) George Bush, about the chilling new intelligence report on Iraq.

(b) Joe Biden, about his self-imploding prolixity.

(c) Condi Rice, on her ability to understand Peyton Manning’s vulnerabilities better than Nuri Kamal al-Malaki’s.

(d) Silvio Berlusconi, on his wife’s Junoesque lightning bolt after his public flirting.

(e) Jacques Chirac, after giving a Gallic shrug at the prospect of Iran getting un or deux nuclear weapons.

(f) Hillary Clinton, on enabling the president to invade Iraq.

(g) Barack Obama, for the ultimate sin of not being black enough or white enough.

(h) Mary Cheney, on her decision to work on her terrifying dad’s homophobic campaign because the thought of John Kerry was “terrifying.”

(i) Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, about his affair with his campaign manager’s wife.

The answer is Gavin Newsom.

It’s rare to get a simple apology when a complex obfuscation will do.

Even after releasing parts of an intelligence report so pessimistic that it may as well have been titled “Iraq: We’re Cooked,” Bush officials clung to their alternate reality, using nonsensical logic and cherry-picking whatever phrases they could find in the report that they could use to sell the Surge.

In the 2004 National Intelligence Estimate, civil war was a worst-case scenario. In the 2007 one, Iraq has zoomed past civil war to hell: “The Intelligence Community judges that the term ‘civil war’ does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict in Iraq, which includes extensive Shia-on-Shia violence, Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent attacks on coalition forces, and widespread criminally motivated violence.”

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[Me.]

1. Gee Maureen, Wonder What Your Thoughts About A Gore Or Kerry Presidency

are now? You did your very best to cook both of them when you had the chance. Now we're all stuck with the pRezident you deserve.

[Joe Bacon]

2. She has her fangs out for Hillary

I'm waiting for that liar to try and puff Giuliani the way she puffed Bush twice.

It's already going after Hillary with both barrels

[Scairp]

3. Cannot stand her

She is either the stupidest person to ever be given such a public forum to lie, or she is just plain nuts. She consistently libeled Al Gore during the 2000 presidential campaign and yet in many quarters she is hailed as this staunch liberal. Staunch liberals don't constantly stab their own presidential hopefuls in the back with their poison pen, and make up quotes to make them look retarded. Anyone remember the bogus John Kerry quote designed to make him look like some kind of snob, "Whom among us doesn't like Nascar"? He NEVER said that, yet Dowd and her psychotic brethren flogged it to death at the time. No, she is no friend to the liberal/progressive cause. She's just batshit crazy.