Dowd:Pride and Prejudice

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Republicans like Dennis Hastert were ranting yesterday about the Spaniards. "Here's a country who stood against terrorism and had a huge terrorist act within their country," Mr. Hastert said, "and they chose to change their government to, in a sense, appease terrorists."

The Republicans prefer to paint our old ally as craven rather than accept the Spanish people's judgment — which most had held since before the war — that the Iraq takeover had nothing to do with the war on terror.

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During a photo-op with Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende of the Netherlands on Tuesday, Mr. Bush did his "Beavis and Butthead" snigger as a Dutch reporter noted that most of his countrymen want to withdraw Dutch troops from Iraq because they think the conflict "has little to do with the war against terrorism, and may actually encourage terrorism." (Uh-oh, looks like no tulips on the Capitol grounds this spring.)

"I would ask them," the president replied, "to think about the Iraqi citizens who don't want people to withdraw because they want to be free."

Now that he hasn't found any weapons, Mr. Bush says the war was worth it so Iraqis could experience democracy. But when our allies engage in democracy, some Republicans mock them as lily-livered.

The Republicans treat John Kerry as disdainfully as they do the European allies who have disappointed the White House, painting him as a French-looking dude who went to a Swiss boarding school, as an effete Brahmin who would rather cut intelligence and military spending than face down terrorists.

The election is shaping up as a contest between Pride and Prejudice.

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[Bonhomme Richard]

1. Just as lies brought down Anzars Government so to will..................

the lies bring down bush. The arrogance is amazing.

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2. I admit

I have been doubting that. Then I always go back to the interview Keith Olbermann did with Carl Bernstein.

Keith asked him him about the drip drip effect of bush's white house and whether there are credibility problems..

From the transcript:

OLBERMANN: Final sort of sum-up point here. Has journalism—and I mean this both as practitioners of it and also as consumers of it—has it sped up so quickly that we no longer have patience for the kind of investigating, reporting, that unraveled Watergate and that none of these stories or any others that are likely to come up this year are going to get people‘s attention long enough to actually be exposed fully?

BERNSTEIN: Never forget that people didn‘t pay attention to our stories in Watergate for a few months and that things have a momentum of their own. And we‘ll have to see how these stories develop.

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And, at the same time, it‘s important because of what it tells us about an atmosphere of just sort of easy playing with ethical problems that ought to have a kind of hands-off sign of warning that‘s not being heeded by the principals in this administration. /end


Bernstein talked about the arrogance of this administration and how it's going to be seen and dealt with eventually, it's just a matter of being patient.

I think he's right.

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3. Maybe I'm just an overly optimistic person.

I still have faith that truth will win. We'll see.