NYT Maureen Dowd column BLASTS Bush Lies: "W.'s Head in the Sand"

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The entire article should be read and I will post a link in a reply in this thread as soon as I find the full text posted somewhere online, as it is bound to be. EDITED TO ADD: IT'S ALREADY AVAILABLE - SEE LINK ADDED AT BOTTOM OF THIS OPENING POST.

http://select.nytimes.com/2005/12/03/opinion/03dowd.html?th&emc=th
Op-Ed Columnist

W.'s Head in the Sand

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: December 3, 2005

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This week, the president presented a plan-like plan for "victory" in Iraq, which Scott McClellan rather pompously called the unclassified version of their supersecret master plan. But there would be no way to achieve victory from this plan even if it were a real plan. If this is what they're telling themselves in the Sit Room, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

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The administration must realize it needs a real exit strategy, because it's advertising for one. The U.S. Agency for International Development is offering more than $1 billion for anyone - anyone at all - who can come up with a plan to pacify and rebuild 10 Iraqi cities seen as vital in the war.

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When Bush officials weren't telling us fairy tales about the big, bad W.M.D. in Iraq, they were assuring us that the unprovoked war would be a kindness for Iraq, giving it democracy. But they are not just failing to bring democracy to Iraq as they help Iranian-backed mullahs install an Islamic republic with Saddamist torture chambers. They are also degrading democracy in America.

They've tarnished American moral leadership with illegal detentions, torture, secret C.I.A. prisons in countries only recently liberated from the Soviet gulag, and Soviet-style propaganda both at home and in Iraq.

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It's awful that this fine, powerful editorial blast is sequestered behind the Times Select wall. Reading the truth is made much too expensive - but then again, at least the NYT still has Krugman, Dowd & Herbert on its staff, unlike the LAT, which canned Robert Scheer in favor of a mealy-mouthed wingnut.

Edited to add: THE FULL TEXT IS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE HERE:

http://www.freewebs.com/pornolectual/pornoblog.htm?blogentryid=109789