Excellent Maureen Dowd column today on Wolfie et al

[GCP]

Many Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee felt they had been snookered by Paul Wolfowitz, and they did not want to be played again.

They waited gimlet-eyed yesterday while Wolfowitz of Arabia shimmied away once more from giving the cost, in lives or troops or dollars, of remaking a roiling Iraq.

Instead, he offered a highly dramatic travelogue of his recent Iraq trip, sleeping in Saddam's palace and flying with members of the Tennessee National Guard, who made him "very unhappy" when they told him about their nearly two years of active duty. (Gee, whose fault is that?) He described Saddam's "torture tree," "unspeakable torture," "torture chamber" and "a smothering blanket of apprehension and dread woven by 35 years of repression."

snip

Senator Lincoln Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island, responded to Mr. Wolfowitz's oration about Saddam's tyranny by noting sharply that Liberia's Charles Taylor is also a vicious tyrant famous for dismembering and burning victims, and spreading war. "But we're doing nothing in Liberia," he said. He objected to Mr. Wolfowitz's using 9/11 to push regime change in Iraq, even though the hawk had advocated getting rid of Saddam all through the late 90's.

Senator Joseph Biden excoriated Mr. Wolfowitz for his lack of candor and said his own review of the Iraqi police force — "almost looked like the Katzenjammer Kids" — had convinced him democracy was way off.

"I no more agree, just for the record, with your assessment that Iraq is the hotbed of terror now than I did your assertions about Al Qaeda connections at the front end," Mr. Biden said, adding that if officials did not tell the truth to the public about the costs in Iraq, they would lose credibility.

I know she was an anti-Gore whore, but she can dish it out to the reptilicans too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/30/opinion/30DOWD.html

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. I agree

she's an equal opportunity mocker. But she's really been letting the neocons have it.

[nostamj]

2. my fav line....

You know you're in trouble when the Saudis are begging you to be more open.

[jamesinca]

3. Good somebody need to give it to them

I am glad that more and more news outlets are speaking up about the lies and deception of this administration. FOX I have noticed is still being their beast of burden.

[Paschall]

4. WTF is this?

<snip> And Mr. Secrecy, John Poindexter, had another boneheaded scheme canceled at the Pentagon, when stunned senators learned that his department had started an online trading market, a dead pool, where investors could wager on terror attacks.

Even Mr. Wolfowitz, who has shown an audacious imagination in refashioning the Middle East, thought the death wagers were over the top: "It sounds like maybe they got too imaginative in this area." </snip>

Now we know that the Most Wanted Iraqis playing cards were for real. :wow:

[GCP]

6. Read all about the latest Pentagon idea - now scrapped

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=17&u=/nm/20030730/ts_nm/security_market_dc

This goes beyond sick.

[rnd4]

5. more wolfie info on this site

http://www.bushcards.com

Do you know who in the Bush administration is an ex-con? Or who never graduated from college? Can you guess the cabinet member who had an oil tanker named after them? Do you know whose nickname is "Scooter" and whose nickname is "Yoda"?

[ArkDem]

7. Her writing looks like something out of a high school yearbook.

Every little bit helps though.