As much as I avoid reading Maureen Dowd,

[elleng]

a friend pointed out: 'It was at the V.F.W. convention in 2002 when Cheney, who got five deferments from Vietnam, set the gold standard for mindless belligerence, pushing pre-emptive action in Iraq.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/opinion/dowd-hiding-in-plain-sight.html?hp

MINDLESS BELLIGERENCE!

[leveymg]

1. She's the only one at the NYT who pointed out George Tenet's apparent perjury in his 9/11 testimony.

See, Tenet's Perjury And Resignation: Door Now Open To Question ...
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=21917
Jun 10, 2004 – Owing to his perjury before the 9/11 Commission, Tenet has also forfeited ... In exhange for his true testimony about this, and what he knows about ... in Terror Case] NYT columnist Maureen Dowd is the only major journalist to ...

[madrchsod]

2. interesting comments at the end of the article

i`m beginning to think maureen is sobering up..

[magical thyme]

3. great closing paragraph

Americans don’t want to play hide-and-seek with their presidential candidates. Romney should listen to himself: The time for stonewalling is over.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. Cognitive dissonance is more like it.

[gateley]

5. I was just going to post a link to this editorial here!

Randi was reading it so I looked it up and read the whole thing. Excellent! Some outstanding comments, too!

[elleng]

6. Hey, gate!

Randi and my friend brought us together!

[Marzupialis]

7. if Dowd had not spent her time criticizing Gore's clothing

and his "robotic" nature, and if other journalists wouldn't have done the same, we wouldn't have had a war in Iraq.