Dance of the Marionettes NYT

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/opinion/26dowd.html?hp

September 26, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Dance of the Marionettes
By MAUREEN DOWD

It's heartwarming, really.

President Bush has his own Mini-Me now, someone to echo his every
word and mimic his every action.

For so long, Mr. Bush has put up with caricatures of a wee W. sitting
in the vice president's lap, Charlie McCarthy style, as big Dick
Cheney calls the shots. But now the president has his own puppet to
play with.

All last week in New York and Washington, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi
of Iraq parroted Mr. Bush's absurd claims that the fighting in Iraq
was an essential part of the U.S. battle against terrorists that
started on 9/11, that the neocons' utopian dream of turning Iraq into
a modern democracy was going swimmingly, and that the worse things
got over there, the better they really were.

It's the media's fault, the two men warble in a duet so perfectly
harmonized you wonder if Karen Hughes wrote Mr. Allawi's speech, for
not showing the millions of people in Iraq who are not being
beheaded, kidnapped, suicide-bombed or caught in the cross-fire every
day; and it's John Kerry's fault for abetting the Iraqi insurgents by
expressing his doubts about our plan there, as he once did about
Vietnam.
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