Dowd: Dance of the Marionettes (Allawi as *'s Mini-Me)

[kskiska]

It's heartwarming, really.

President Bush has his own Mini-Me now, someone to echo his every word and mimic his every action.

For so long, Mr. Bush has put up with caricatures of a wee W. sitting in the vice president's lap, Charlie McCarthy style, as big Dick Cheney calls the shots. But now the president has his own puppet to play with.

All last week in New York and Washington, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of Iraq parroted Mr. Bush's absurd claims that the fighting in Iraq was an essential part of the U.S. battle against terrorists that started on 9/11, that the neocons' utopian dream of turning Iraq into a modern democracy was going swimmingly, and that the worse things got over there, the better they really were.

It's the media's fault, the two men warble in a duet so perfectly harmonized you wonder if Karen Hughes wrote Mr. Allawi's speech, for not showing the millions of people in Iraq who are not being beheaded, kidnapped, suicide-bombed or caught in the cross-fire every day; and it's John Kerry's fault for abetting the Iraqi insurgents by expressing his doubts about our plan there, as he once did about Vietnam.

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http://nytimes.com/2004/09/26/opinion/26dowd.html?hp

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'm all schizo about MoDo.

She's so bloody awful on TV -- all snippy and snarky in a 'luded-out sort of way, and full of herself and looking like mutton dressed as lamb, and I watch her and start hating her guts; and then she writes something like this, which is freakin' brilliant and absolutely, totally ON.

[bogey18]

2. I agree

She comes off on TV as way over medicated, but I generally like what she has to say - she seems to be sort of an equal opportunity basher.

You know, with Al Jazeera kicked out of Iraq, there is now officially no objective media viewing and reporting on the situation there. How scary is that? We are truly doing a great job of bringing democracy to that country.

As Rummy says, nothing's perfect. What a genius! I am going to sleep so much better now....

[madmax]

3. She's terrible on the talk shows but, her book is great. n/t