a feel-good story about Paul Wolfowitz

[Cocoa]

before any of you cynics say anything, Ms. Parker was just on the radio assuring Bill Bennett's audience that this was NOT a set-up to give Wolfowitz some good pub, she actually did just accidentally stumble upon this dinner in the restaurant in the basement of the hotel...

:rofl:

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/kathleenparker/2006/03/15/189899.html

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The short story is that Clark and I missed each other, to our mutual regret. Instead, I happened upon a large dining room filled with about 125 people, including many wounded soldiers in wheelchairs or on crutches. I also noticed a couple of suits by the door wearing wires.

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The man in business attire was Dr. Paul Wolfowitz, former deputy defense secretary and now head of the World Bank. Wolfowitz listened intently, asked a few questions, then joined Serna and others for a group photo. And so the evening went, with the former deputy quietly making the rounds - listening and shaking hands - and lingering for a while after the wounded were headed back to Walter Reed.

In fact, I learned, you can find Wolfowitz here most Friday nights - at least twice a month - meeting with the wounded and hearing their stories. No fanfare or fuss, which is why many outside of Washington don't know about it.

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Wolfowitz has taken plenty of flak for his contributions to the Iraq war strategy, now considered to be "going badly" by a majority of Americans (57 percent, according to a recent CBS News poll). Even though those figures are mirrored by Americans in the military (58 percent), I did not feel inclined to disagree with Wolfowitz on this night in this room when he said to me, "The last thing these people want is for us to cut and run."

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. parker not hawking someone in the admin? R I G H T ! !

Every one of her articles is filled with a gentle kiss-kiss, or huggie-huggie, or Isn't Condi just brilliant and beautiful?

I gag each time I read her stuff.

[acmavm]

2. Since he bears so much responsibility for the condition that

these people now find themselves to be in, I don't give him credit for a damn thing. This must be some misguided phony attempt to soothe his own guilty conscience.

[Divernan]

3. Wolfowitz not paying for these meals; he's looking for validation.

Wolfowitz does and should bear a heavy personal responsibility for being an architect of this misbegotten nightmare called a war.

Further excerpt:
"Here" is Fran O'Brien's Stadium Steakhouse in the basement of the Capital Hilton Hotel a few blocks from the White House, where owners Hal Koster, a Vietnam vet, and Marty O'Brien began hosting free dinners for wounded troops a couple of years ago. Some may recognize the setting from the "Doonesbury" comic strip, which featured O'Brien's after creator Garry Trudeau attended one of the dinners."

What better place for Wolfowitz to show up and ask the maimed, in so many words, "Don't you think that if we cut and run from Iraq, your terrible loss and suffering will have been for NOTHING?"

It is the hardest task imaginable to live a life crippled and scarred and maimed, and to daily realize the myriad of ways in which your life and the life of your entire family has been severely limited from what could have been. Human nature is such that you would have to be practically superhuman to ALSO acknowledge that your loss was to benefit Bush's desire for revenge and glory and the profits to the corporate/military war machine. That evil scum, Wolfowitz is exploiting this human tendency to assuage his well-deserved guilt.

So, no I don't find this a feel-good story. I find it an obscenity. Anyone able to dig out and post the Doonesbury strip featuring this same restaurant?

[Maru Kitteh]

6. So here of course is the effed up Freepers reaction

"To: CedarDave
I just dunno.
Trudeau's usual liberal tripe has done nothing but prolong the war and get more of these soldiers hurt.

It seems sort of like he's trying to salve his conscience by writing something nice about them (and making money at the same time). It reminds me a little of the false sympathy of the Code Pinkos standing outside Walter Reed claiming to be "for the troops" . . .

Maybe I'm being overly sensitive. But I'm highly suspicious of Trudeau's motives here.


19 posted on 10/02/2005 1:54:45 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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SCUSE ME? Trudeau is somehow RESPONSIBLE for this stupid worthless useless travesty of a war being prolonged? How the hell did he pull that off, you brainless fucking morons? My God in heaven those people are nuckin' futs.

[rman]

4. Sure, sociopaths know how to make themselves look good.

They know when to go with the flow, they know how to make all the right sounds and all the right moves - it's characteristic of sociopathy.

These neocons went from the extreme political left to the far right, some are now all but denouncing W and the Iraq war, and Wolfy went from not knowing nor caring about the number of military casualties to caring about the wounded. How many times do they think they can pull of this kind of shit without anyone noticing a pattern?

[nuxvomica]

5. Not to be cynical, but does Wolfie pay for his own meal?

This is actually kind of sad because it indicates that Wolfowitz is the type of villain who wants to believe that he's a good person. I think people like that end up doing the most harm. He should dig his way out of whatever recondite logical argument he uses to assure himself of that and allow himself an epiphany leading to a public repudiation of the war. But I suspect he doesn't have the courage for that.

[Devlzown]

7. Cheney takes the orphans to Disneyworld.

He does it quietly and doesn't want any publicity, that's why I'm telling y'all about it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. but does he take them to the shooting gallery?