Maureen Dowd: Where Is Euphrates Etiquette?

[diddlysquat]

http://www.pekingduck.org/archives/004014.php

You can take the boy out of Kennebunkport, but you can't take Kennebunkport out of the boy. The erstwhile black sheep is now as obsessed with manners as his dad. He's furious that he got no thank-you note from the Iraqis for the big present of allowing them the opportunity to be like us. They refused our gift, after everything W. did for them - invading their country under the false pretense of protecting our country, shattering their shaky infrastructure, and starting a shame spiral that's led to civil war.

His foreign policy has been more force majeure than the noblesse oblige of his father and grandfather. But now he has embraced noblesse, and puzzles over why the poor Iraqis do not feel more obliged after being blessed with America's philosophical, economic and political riches. How on earth do these benighted folk not understand the difference between the good guys and the bad guys?

more at above link

[acmavm]

1. Yeah, I'm sure they're really grateful for the bombs that killed their

families and blew their infrastracture back into the Dark Ages.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HIS INSANITY.

[rodeodance]

2. looky, Bremer said Jr wanted a public Thank you

Reviewing Paul Bremer's book in The New York Review of Books, Peter Galbraith wrote: 'In Bremers' account, the president was seriously interested in one issue: whether the leaders of the government that followed the would publicly thank the United States. ... Bush had only one demand: ‘It's important to have someone whoss willing to stand up and thank the American people for their sacrifice in liberating Iraq.' ''

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. I haven't heard much from Ms Dowd

lately. I am always impressed with her writing.