Sinking in a Swamp Full of Blackwater By MAUREEN DOWD

[applegrove]

Op-Ed Columnist
Sinking in a Swamp Full of Blackwater

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 3, 2007
Washington
The New York Times

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster,” Nietzsche said. “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

We’re gazing into the abyss all right, and Blackwater is gazing back.

Besides having an army for hire, brave kids who are paid to fight so that most Americans are not personally touched by war, we have the real mercenaries. And they’re a spooky cadre, careening outside the laws of Iraq, the United States and the military.

President Bush continues to preach that we must defeat the “dark ideology” of extremists with “a more hopeful vision.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/opinion/03dowd.html?th&emc=th

[BridgeTheGap]

1. Jeesh - what don't the feds get about these jack boots?

Cut 'em off!

[flordehinojos]

2. Really,

Maureen?

"<...>the compromises W. makes to slog on in Iraq, be it with warlords, dictators or out-of-control contractors, are spreading a dark stain on America’s image."

The whole thing is more like a dark stain befell on America's image the day the goons and the court seated the pedantic bush in the oval office... and, did you play any part in the staining of America?

Perhaps you ought to be writing a poem to the U.S.A. entitled something like,
"How did I fail thee? Let me Count the Ways!"

[antiimperialist]

3. Thanks for reading Dowd so I don't have to

That idiot is so jealous of Hillary Clinton that I'm afraid she will try to damage her reputation during the '08 campaign, if she's elected as the nominee. The other day she was criticizing the way Hillary laughs. Go figure. And did I mention her lies about Al Gore ahead of the 2000 elections?

[applegrove]

4. I posted about MODO's horrid "nagging" piece on Hillary. I don't read

her all the time but today's post on Blackwater was good.

[underpants]

5. Once again Dowd is THE pivot point on a RW talking point

I heard a DJ on a oldie radio station talking about how SOME PEOPLE are saying (don't YOU want to be just like everyone else?) that her laughs were contrived for her image...this was also mentioned on Fox News. Well let's see she*IS* running for office on a national stage and (scratches chin) she WAS on national TV...hmmmm....

:eyes:

Dow, BTW, was the main thrust of getting the story about Gore taking fashion advice from Naomi Wolf and it became "known as a fact" after that.

[hatrack]

6. What? No "earth tone" or "lactation" jokes, HoDo?

So, Whoreen has just discovered the whereabouts of the sky? Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.