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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 10:38 PM
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Dowd: We're Not Happy Campers
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/opinion/11DOWD.html

<Dowd first rants on the "Jewish" Barbie brouha in SA. snip>

The place so eager to protect itself from "Jewish" toys and "the perverted West," the breeding ground of the 9/11 hijackers, is still the Bush administration's close ally.

Osama bin Laden is urging the Muslim world to pursue a jihad against America, even as America pursues a GWOT in the Muslim world. (GWOT is how some Pentagon documents refer to the Global War on Terror.) They're out to get us, and we're out to get them.

Far from being the swift and gratifying lesson in U.S. dominance that Cheney & Co. predicted, our incursion into Iraq is turning into a spun-out, scary lesson in the dangers of hubris. Democrats are combing through the $20 billion part of the White House request involving rebuilding Iraq, trying to make sure there isn't any Halliburton hanky-panky.

I've actually gotten to the point where I hope Dick Cheney is embroiled in a Clancyesque conspiracy to benefit Halliburton. Because if it's not a conspiracy, it's naïveté and ideology. And that means our leaders have used goofball logic and lousy assumptions to trap the country in a cockeyed replay of the Crusades that could drain our treasury and strain our military for generations, without making us any safer from terrorists and maybe putting us more at risk.

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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 10:43 PM
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1. Good. I HOPE she's mad enough
...to get smarter than criticizing the Dem candidate's wardrobe this time!
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The Zanti Regent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-03 11:15 PM
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2. Don't hold your breath
ol' Whoreen will huff and puff for a few weeks then she will go back to bashing Hillary.
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