U.S. high horse now riderless

[Cocoa]

http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1511~1524257,00.html

Jay BOOKMAN
U.S. high horse now riderless

SOME people are born humble. Others have humility thrust upon them.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for example, was asked in a recent interview whether he still had faith in prewar intelligence claiming a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

"I think that the, the, information we had over a period of time that I cited that the intelligence community gave to me and I read as opposed to ad-libbing was correct. It, it, it was carefully stated ..."

Talk about carefully stated.

It's telling to see the bantam rooster of the Bush administration turn so halting and defensive, insisting that, hey, he had only been reading what somebody else handed him. Then again, there's a lot of that going around these days.

In fact, if Vietnam was the place where America lost her innocence, Iraq may be the place where we lose our arrogance.

The once-triumphant Richard Perle has gone underground. The sublimely smug William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and stalwart champion of empire, no longer looks as though he just swallowed a canary. Crow is more like it. And we've heard more from Saddam Hussein in recent weeks than from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

Maybe because Saddam, unlike Wolfowitz, has a plan that's actually working.

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[lcordero]

1. I reject the notion of a "US high horse" ever existing

Look at Mark Twain's writings and you'll see why I say this.

[damnraddem]

7. Well, with the Bushistas, not the whole horse ...

just the rear end.

[Larkspur]

2. This is a killer line...

we've heard more from Saddam Hussein in recent weeks than from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

Maybe because Saddam, unlike Wolfowitz, has a plan that's actually working.

Ouch! But it's true.

[caledesi]

4. LS - oh yeah, the BEST line. This is a must-read.

[Cocoa]

5. I agree

that line says it all.

And when they do say anything, it's either trash-talking, or excuse-making.

Today on NPR, Juan Williams asked Paul Bremer a very good and very obvious follow-up question, after Bremer said he thought Hussein was still alive and in Iraq. Williams asked "But why can't we find him, if we control the country?" Forgive me for not remembering what Bremer's "answer" was.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

6. were you

too busy laughing?

[Hand]

10. Bremer's answer?

Words to the effect of "Homina homina homina... bduh... abba abba eef," no doubt.

[damnraddem]

8. If this administration get reselected in 2004, ...

Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein never will conspire together -- they'll be too busy fighting against each other for world domination.

[caledesi]

3. Brilliant article. This Iraq debacle occurred because of these

thugs and their arrogance.

How many troops have to die Mr. Bush? How many? And for what?

[Terran]

9. Cocoa

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