Dowd: A Not So Wonderful Life (Rumsfeld-Good Column)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/opinion/19dowd.html?hp=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=

Rummy is visited by the angel Clarence.

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CLARENCE: No more self-pity, son. I'm going to show you what the world would have been like if you'd never been born.

Clarence, who can fly now, takes Rummy's hand and they soar over the icy Potomac to the Pentagon. Beneath the glass on the desk of the defense secretary is a list of members of Congress and their phone numbers.

RUMMY: Who put that there?

CLARENCE: Sam Nunn. He's the defense secretary. Sam consults with Congress. Never acts arrogant or misleads them. He didn't banish the generals who challenged him - he promoted 'em. And, of course, he caught Osama back in '01. He threw 100,000 troops into Afghanistan on 9/11 and sealed the borders. Our Special Forces trapped the evildoer and his top lieutenants at Tora Bora. You weren't at that cabinet meeting the day after 9/11, so nobody suggested going after Saddam. No American troops died or were maimed in Iraq. No American soldiers tortured Iraqis in Abu Ghraib. No Iraqi explosives fell into the hands of terrorists. There's no office of disinformation to twist perception abroad. We're not on the cusp of an Iraq run by Muslim clerics tied to Iran. Here's Sam. He's with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

GENERAL SHINSEKI: We got some good news today on the National Guard, sir. Recruiting is up 40 percent. With the money we saved killing that useless missile defense system, we up-armored all our Humvees.

[KC21304]

1. This is great. She hit it out of the park.

Hits them all where it hurts.

[vixengrl]

2. That's pretty brilliant. (Clarence, take me back--to MoDo's vision!) n/t

[The Zanti Regent]

3. too little and too late

Oh, Whoreen, you left the barn door open, didn't you?

[progressivedancer]

4. ?

Zanti Regent, why the name calling. I know that she didn't help us very much during the election and she is pretty good at just Bitching in general, but give her credit for good and honest observation.

[WCGreen]

5. she is a treasur..

She has taken sarcasm and wit to a new level and has always, always gone against who ever is in power....

That is what a true satarist should do, tweak and expose the folly of power......

Alas, she then becomes pariah when her tweaks ring true.....

[BlueEyedSon]

6. mega-kick

[Catchawave]

7. This is perfect for Signaturegate....

I love Maureen Dowd !

[mcscajun]

8. If only 't'were so...

CLARENCE: Dick and Lynne run a bait, tackle and baton-twirling shop in Casper, Wyo.

[Vitruvius]

11. And -- best of all --

RUMMY: Goodness gracious, I've heard enough now. I'm going home. Unless you're going to tell me my wife is an old maid, because I wasn't around to marry her.

CLARENCE: Oh, no. Joyce lives across the street from your old house on Kalorama Road. She's happily married to the French ambassador.:evilgrin:

[indigobusiness]

9. Dowd puts facts into perspective.

Which is painful to all sides of political bs.

She's no whore.

[Starlight]

10. I couldn't read it all. It was too painful to think of what could

have been. :(

[indepat]

12. And what would the world be like had the crop of neocons never been born

or born-again?