Lost in a Masquerade-Bush dressing up to " play soldier:

[rodeodance]

"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/09/opinion/09dowd.html?th=&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position="

.......The president loves dressing up to play soldier. To rally Camp Pendleton marines facing extended deployments in Iraq, he got gussied up in an Ike D-Day-style jacket, with epaulets and a big presidential seal on one lapel and his name and "Commander in Chief" on the other.

When he really had a chance to put on a uniform and go someplace where the enemy was invisible and there was no exit strategy and our government was not leveling with us about how bad it was, W. wasn't so high on the idea. But now that it's just a masquerade - giving a morale boost to troops heading off someplace where the enemy's invisible and there's no exit strategy and the government's not leveling with us about how bad it is - hey, man, it's cool."

December 9, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Lost in a Masquerade
By MAUREEN DOWD


WASHINGTON

Hoooo-rah! Rummy finally got called on the carpet.

Not by the president, of course, but by troops fighting in Iraq. Some of them are finally fed up enough to rumble about his back-door draft and failure to provide them with the proper armor for their Humvees, leaving them scrambling to improvise with what they call "hillbilly armor."........

[izzie]

1. I loved what she wrote but I have been laughing about it for years.

If Bush was not so powerful he would be fun.

[rodeodance]

2. "Nothing's perfect," "Freedom's untidy" and "Stuff happens" maxims,"

These were Rummy's "coldly cantankerous tone" comments to the troops as he responded to the troop qustions per Dowd!
He should be ashamed to appear in front of them!!


Rummy gets called on carpet--and by Bush but by the troops!!

[Torgo4]

3. they Wouldn't Dare...

Let armed troops within a sq km. of Rummy with a loaded weapon or active ordnance.

They'd frag his ass in a heartbeat!!!

[Fleurs du Mal]

4. Delicious as usual

[Demeter]

5. Better Late Than Never, I Suppose

Where have you been these past 4 long years, M. Dowd? Too busy sniping at Clintons?