'Bay of Goats' by Maureen Dowd

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Bay of Goats
By MAUREEN DOWD May 23, 2004
WASHINGTON

"So let me get this straight:

We ransacked the house of the con man whom we paid millions to feed us fake intelligence on W.M.D. that would make the case for ransacking the country that the con man assured us would be a cinch to take over because he wanted to run it.

And now we're shocked, shocked and awed to discover that a crook is a crook and we have nobody to turn over Iraq to, and the Jordanian embezzler-turned-American puppet-turned-accused Iranian spy is trying to foment even more anger against us and the U.N. officials we've crawled back to for help, anger that may lead to civil war.

The party line that Paul Bremer was notified about the raid on Ahmad Chalabi's house after the fact is absurd. The Iraqi police, who can't seem to do anything without us, were just proxies. We were going after the very guy who persuaded us to go after Saddam, the con man the naïve neo-cons cast as de Gaulle; the swindler who sold himself to Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz as Spartacus.

One diplomat from the region grimly cited an old Punjabi saying: "It's very bad when grandma marries a crook, but it is even worse when she divorces the crook."

more: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/opinion/23DOWD.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1085284893-ZmgbpsVj6Lub9soWlBDP3A

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1. kick n/t

[pretzel4gore]

2. oh dowd, what ya selling!

cuz no ones buying....
the naive and ignorant are the mediawhores pushing the snakeoil that says bushinc give a crap about iraq.
dowd has committed treason helping geeb...now she's playacting concern

[JPZenger]

4. $33 millin went to con man and felon Chalabi

I liked this sentence from Dowd's column:

"The C.I.A. and State Department, too, grew disgusted with Mr. Chalabi, even though State paid his organization $33 million from 2000 to 2003."

[Demeter]

3. Amazing!

Not one snide comment about Hillary or President Clinton!

Gee, did you cut out caffeine, Maureen?

[The Zanti Regent]

5. Whoreeen is just plain baaaaaaaaad

and boooorrrrriiiinnnngggg too!

[cybildisobedience]

6. my email to MoDo

"You, who spent so much of your vaunted wit and arch humor to skewer Al
Gore because you thought he was too boring -
You, who decided that a lie about an affair between two consenting
adults justified the impeachment of not only a popular, but a
hard-working and competent president -
NOW you see what real incompetence is all about!
Thanks for coming to the party about four years too late. We (the
millions who saw through Bush from day one) could have used your help in
calling a spade a spade before this monster seized power and set us off
on a course of certain destruction, but I guess mocking the Clintons and
Al Gore was just too much fun for you, wasn't it?"

Let's let these whores have it -- they think they can shill for Bush as these years, then bail when the going gets tough and sell us a bill of goods that they're hard-hitting journalists just itchin' to get at the truth.
Clean the blood off your hands first -