No Way Out: MAUREEN DOWD - Iraq ; Responses to US trophy brains in fridge by MAUREEN DOWD - The New York Times Saturday Feb 3rd, 2007 DOWD: Were in a cycle of violence in Iraq that is so complex and awful that withdrawing American troops will make it worse and keeping American troops there may also make it worse.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE --> OP-ED COLUMNIST No Way Out By MAUREEN DOWD Published: February 3, 2007 Everything you've heard and read is true. And I am deeply sorry about that." Who said it? (a) George Bush, about the chilling new intelligence report on Iraq. (b) Joe Biden, about his self-imploding prolixity. (c) Condi Rice, on her ability to understand Peyton Manning's vulnerabilities better than Nuri Kamal al-Malaki's. (d) Silvio Berlusconi, on his wife's Junoesque lightning bolt after his public flirting. (e) Jacques Chirac, after giving a Gallic shrug at the prospect of Iran getting un or deux nuclear weapons. (f) Hillary Clinton, on enabling the president to invade Iraq. (g) Barack Obama, for the ultimate sin of not being black enough or white enough. (h) Mary Cheney, on her decision to work on her terrifying dad's homophobic campaign because the thought of John Kerry was "terrifying." (i) Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, about his affair with his campaign manager's wife. The answer is Gavin Newsom. It's rare to get a simple apology when a complex obfuscation will do. Even after releasing parts of an intelligence report so pessimistic that it may as well have been titled "Iraq: We're Cooked," Bush officials clung to their alternate reality, using nonsensical logic and cherry-picking whatever phrases they could find in the report that they could use to sell the Surge. In the 2004 National Intelligence Estimate, civil war was a worst-case scenario. In the 2007 one, Iraq has zoomed past civil war to hell: "The Intelligence Community judges that the term 'civil war' does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict in Iraq, which includes extensive Shia-on-Shia violence, Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent attacks on coalition forces, and widespread criminally motivated violence." As John McLaughlin, the former acting director of central intelligence, told The Times's Mark Mazzetti: "Civil war is checkers. This is chess." .... --MORE-- http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/no-way-out-maureen-dowd-iraq-we-can-try.html Labels: Bush, Casey, Hadley, Iran, Iraq, MAUREEN DOWD, News, NIE, Politics, The New York Times, war Missing Molly Ivins: PAUL KRUGMAN http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/missing-molly-ivins-paul-krugman_03.html RE: U.S. troops kept Iraqi brains in the fridge for trophies http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/re-us-troops-kept-iraqi-brains-in.html Plus: http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/555#comment-2451 Local Contingent Travels to Support Lt. Watada at Trial - Starts this Monday. First U.S. Officer tried for refusal to go to Iraq. http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=02-02-07&storyID=26233 CCNWON Editor's Note: I want to thank my yahoogroup readers and leave you with one thought today: "Resistance Cannot Be Jailed" MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/ New website mparent7777 mparent --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail --------------------------------- Get news delivered. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page.
