Paul Wolfowitz becomes our "Comical Ali" -- Josh Marshall

[BlueEyedSon]

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What are you supposed to make of this?

Paul Wolfowitz told reporters today that it's not the US which has changed positions, but the UN. We've wanted a new UN resolution for months. It's just that the UN has finally come around to our position. The bombing of the UN compound in Baghdad "changed the atmosphere in New York."

How about that? Wolfowitz is an awfully sharp guy. But he's turning into the Comical Ali of the collapse of neoconservative grand strategy in the Middle East.

The UN is putty in our hands!

We have bent them to our will!

The humiliation of the French is complete!
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0301.html#090503134am

Also see today's Krugman at NYT:

"President Bush is now begging the cheese-eaters and chocolate-makers to rescue him. What may not be equally obvious is that he's doing the same thing on the economic front. Having squandered his room for economic maneuver on tax cuts that pleased his party base but had nothing to do with job creation, Mr. Bush is now asking China to help him out."

"Sic transit and all that. Just four months after Operation Flight Suit, the superpower has become a supplicant to nations it used to insult. Mission accomplished!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/opinion/05KRUG.html

[trumad]

1. I love Josh

and he's dead on with the comaparison...

[rooboy]

2. ROLFMAO...

brilliant.

[joeybee12]

3. Saw both of those--wonderful

But wonderful in a scary sort of way--we really have incompetent jerks running the show.

[priller]

4. What he calls rampant up-is-downism

that all the Bushies seem to be infected with. I would call it "after-the-fact justification". Once they see how badly they've screwed up, they change course, yet say that that was their intention all along. Orwell couldn't have done better.

[loudnclear]

5. That is just Tooooooooooooo funny!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA.....