I think President Bush has cleared up everything now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/opinion/12DOWD.html
OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Khan Artist
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: February 12, 2004

WASHINGTON

I think President Bush has cleared up everything now.

The U.S. invaded Iraq, which turned out not to have what our pals in
Pakistan did have and were giving out willy-nilly to all the bad guys
except Iraq, which wouldn't take it.

Bush officials thought they knew what was going on inside our enemy's
country: that Iraq had W.M.D. and might sell them on the black market.
But they were wrong.

Bush officials thought they knew what was going on inside our friend's
country: that Pakistanis were trying to sell W.M.D. on the black market.
But they couldn't prove it — until about the time we were invading Iraq.

"The grave and gathering threat" turned out to be not Saddam's mushroom
cloud but the president's mushrooming deficits.

The president is having just as hard a time finding his National Guard
records as Iraqi W.M.D. — and those pay stubs look as murky as those
satellite photos of trucks in Iraq.

Mr. Bush said yesterday that smaller developing countries must stop
developing nuclear fuel, even as the U.S. develops a whole new arsenal
of smaller nuclear weapons to use against smaller developing countries
that might be thinking about developing nuclear fuel.

After he weakened the U.N. for telling the truth about Iraq's
nonexistent W.M.D., Mr. Bush now calls on the U.N. to be strong going
after W.M.D.

Gen. Pervez Musharraf pardoned the Pakistani hero and nuclear huckster
Abdul Qadeer Khan after an embarrassing debacle, praising the
scientist's service to his country. Mr. Bush pardoned George Tenet after
an embarrassing debacle, praising the spook's service to his country.
(So much for Mr. Bush's preachy odes to responsibility and accountability.)

The president warned yesterday that "the greatest threat before
humanity" is the possibility of a sudden W.M.D. attack. Not wanting
nuclear technology to go to North Korea, Iran or Libya, the White House
demanded tighter controls on black-market sales of W.M.D., even while
praising its good buddy Pakistan, whose scientists were running a black
market like a Sam's Club for nukes, peddling to North Korea, Iran and Libya.

Mr. Bush likes to present the world in black and white, as good and
evil, even as he's made a Faustian deal with General Musharraf, perhaps
hoping that one day — maybe even on an October day — the cagey general
will decide to cough up Osama.

The president is spending $1.5 billion to persuade more Americans to
have happy married lives, but plans to keep gay Americans from having
happy married lives.

Mr. Bush said he wouldn't try to overturn abortion rights. But John
Ashcroft is intimidating women who had certain abortions by subpoenaing
records in six hospitals in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere.

The president set up the intelligence commission (with few intelligence
experts) because, he
said, the best intelligence is needed to win the war on terror. Yet he
doesn't want us to get the panel's crucial report until after he's won
the war on Kerry.

Mr. Bush said he had balked at giving the 9/11 commission the records of
his daily briefings from the C.I.A. until faced with a subpoena threat
because it might deter the C.I.A. from giving the president "good,
honest information." Wasn't it such "good, honest information" that
caused him to miss 9/11 and mobilize the greatest war machine in history
against Saddam's empty cupboard?

Mr. Bush says he's working hard to create new jobs in America, while his
top economist says it's healthy for jobs to be shipped overseas.

The president told Tim Russert that if you order a country to disarm and
it doesn't and you don't act, you lose face. But how does a country that
goes to war to disarm a country without arms get back its face?

Mr. Bush said he was troubled that the Vietnam War was "a political
war," because civilian politicians didn't let the generals decide how to
fight it. But when Gen. Eric Shinseki presciently told Congress in
February 2003 that postwar Iraq would need several hundred thousand U.S.
soldiers to keep it secure and supplied, he was swatted down by the Bush
administration's civilian politicians.

Yes, it all makes perfect sense, through the Bush looking glass.

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 1942 +0100 (CET), Tarapia Tapioco
wrote:

>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/opinion/12DOWD.html
> OP-ED COLUMNIST
>The Khan Artist
>By MAUREEN DOWD
Tapioca continues to quote Maureen Dowd like she's a "real"
journalist.

What a fucking moron you are...
Regards,
snipped...

What, pray tell, did he kill all the KURDS with then. LYSOL????
"Tarapia Tapioco" wrote in message
news:46d62b29fbdaa29f055079a25a537266@firenze.linu x.it...
> http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/opinion/12DOWD.html
> OP-ED COLUMNIST
> The Khan Artist
> By MAUREEN DOWD
>
> Published: February 12, 2004
>
> WASHINGTON
>
> I think President Bush has cleared up everything now.
>
> The U.S. invaded Iraq, which turned out not to have what our pals in
> Pakistan did have and were giving out willy-nilly to all the bad guys
> except Iraq, which wouldn't take it.
>
> Bush officials thought they knew what was going on inside our enemy's
> country: that Iraq had W.M.D. and might sell them on the black market.
> But they were wrong.
>
> Bush officials thought they knew what was going on inside our friend's
> country: that Pakistanis were trying to sell W.M.D. on the black market.
> But they couldn't prove it - until about the time we were invading Iraq.
>
> "The grave and gathering threat" turned out to be not Saddam's mushroom
> cloud but the president's mushrooming deficits.
>
> The president is having just as hard a time finding his National Guard
> records as Iraqi W.M.D. - and those pay stubs look as murky as those
> satellite photos of trucks in Iraq.
>
> Mr. Bush said yesterday that smaller developing countries must stop
> developing nuclear fuel, even as the U.S. develops a whole new arsenal
> of smaller nuclear weapons to use against smaller developing countries
> that might be thinking about developing nuclear fuel.
>
> After he weakened the U.N. for telling the truth about Iraq's
> nonexistent W.M.D., Mr. Bush now calls on the U.N. to be strong going
> after W.M.D.
>
> Gen. Pervez Musharraf pardoned the Pakistani hero and nuclear huckster
> Abdul Qadeer Khan after an embarrassing debacle, praising the
> scientist's service to his country. Mr. Bush pardoned George Tenet after
> an embarrassing debacle, praising the spook's service to his country.
> (So much for Mr. Bush's preachy odes to responsibility and
accountability.)
>
> The president warned yesterday that "the greatest threat before
> humanity" is the possibility of a sudden W.M.D. attack. Not wanting
> nuclear technology to go to North Korea, Iran or Libya, the White House
> demanded tighter controls on black-market sales of W.M.D., even while
> praising its good buddy Pakistan, whose scientists were running a black
> market like a Sam's Club for nukes, peddling to North Korea, Iran and
Libya.
>
> Mr. Bush likes to present the world in black and white, as good and
> evil, even as he's made a Faustian deal with General Musharraf, perhaps
> hoping that one day - maybe even on an October day - the cagey general
> will decide to cough up Osama.
>
> The president is spending $1.5 billion to persuade more Americans to
> have happy married lives, but plans to keep gay Americans from having
> happy married lives.
>
> Mr. Bush said he wouldn't try to overturn abortion rights. But John
> Ashcroft is intimidating women who had certain abortions by subpoenaing
> records in six hospitals in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere.
>
> The president set up the intelligence commission (with few intelligence
> experts) because, he
> said, the best intelligence is needed to win the war on terror. Yet he
> doesn't want us to get the panel's crucial report until after he's won
> the war on Kerry.
>
> Mr. Bush said he had balked at giving the 9/11 commission the records of
> his daily briefings from the C.I.A. until faced with a subpoena threat
> because it might deter the C.I.A. from giving the president "good,
> honest information." Wasn't it such "good, honest information" that
> caused him to miss 9/11 and mobilize the greatest war machine in history
> against Saddam's empty cupboard?
>
> Mr. Bush says he's working hard to create new jobs in America, while his
> top economist says it's healthy for jobs to be shipped overseas.
>
> The president told Tim Russert that if you order a country to disarm and
> it doesn't and you don't act, you lose face. But how does a country that
> goes to war to disarm a country without arms get back its face?
>
> Mr. Bush said he was troubled that the Vietnam War was "a political
> war," because civilian politicians didn't let the generals decide how to
> fight it. But when Gen. Eric Shinseki presciently told Congress in
> February 2003 that postwar Iraq would need several hundred thousand U.S.
> soldiers to keep it secure and supplied, he was swatted down by the Bush
> administration's civilian politicians.
>
> Yes, it all makes perfect sense, through the Bush looking glass.
>

On 12-Feb-2004, "Otto Pringle" wrote:

> What, pray tell, did he kill all the KURDS with then. LYSOL????
> "Tarapia Tapioco" wrote in message
> news:46d62b29fbdaa29f055079a25a537266@firenze.linu x.it...

I heard it was Oxi-Clean