Dowd: Wolfie's Fuzzy Math

[kskiska]

This administration is the opposite of "The Sixth Sense."

They don't see any dead people.

Beyond the president's glaring absence at military funerals; beyond the Pentagon's self-serving ban on photographing the returning flag-draped coffins at Dover; beyond playing down the thousands of wounded and maimed American troops and the thousands of hurt and dead Iraqi civilians, now comes the cruel arithmetic of Paul Wolfowitz.

What can you say about a deputy defense secretary so eager to invade Iraq he was nicknamed Wolfowitz of Arabia, so bullish to remold the Middle East he froze the State Department out of the occupation and then mangled it, who doesn't bother to keep track of the young Americans who died for his delusion?

Those troops were killed while they were still trying to fathom the treacherous tribal and religious beehive they were never prepared for, since they thought they'd be helping build schools and hospitals for grateful Iraqis.

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Hiding the faces of the war dead makes the motivation seem like saving face in an election year.

Americans won't take casualties for the credibility of the Bush administration. That's not a good enough reason for people to die.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/opinion/02DOWD.html

[The Zanti Regent]

1. Whoreen still Gores Kerry

The key part of her latest dog turd:

(Shouldn't John Kerry be running as John McCain's vice president?)

NO, but Whoreen should be pouring coffee at a Denny's and begging for tips instead of lying for the Republicans week after week!

[dand]

2. If she makes Bush and Wolfowitz look bad

She is a friend of mine, she isn't the only one who has doubts about JK, I think she is one of the very few honest reporters in this country.