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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-03 06:18 PM
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Nov 2 Pundit Pap- A Whole Lot Uglier
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A Whole Lot Uglier
The mess in Iraq worsens drastically overnight as the Sunday shows revert to lapdog mode
By JJ Balzer
with Steve Young

Nov. 2, 2003 - - Shortly after we began downing our morning coffee, we tuned into CNN to witness the latest bad news from Iraq: a couple of surface-to-air missiles had downed a Chinook cargo helicopter with just over 30 American soldiers, some reportedly headed for some "rest and recreation" time. The initial report we saw on CNN said some thirteen soldiers were thought to be dead; by the time we went to press, the number had risen to fifteen.

No doubt presidential puppeteer Karl Röve and stealth president Dick Cheney had decided to dispatch War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in anticipation of a threatened wave of "resistance" to coincide with the beginning of the Muslim Ramadan season. And for his part, Rummy did his best to trot out that old, reliable "pithy but lovable" act that the press seems to eat up and continues to allow him to pull off even in the wake of the emergence of a memo from "Grampa Donny" that asks the sort of questions that the entire nation should have asked prior to Smirk's Feud in Iraq. This morning, he had varying degrees of success in maintaining that charming "I'm in charge here, pally, and you're gonna love it" persona as he toured all of the major Sunday morning coffee-and-hangover shows (except CBS' Face the Nation).

Here is what we saw of the festivities.

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