Maureen Dowd: The sheep turn on Wolfie

Dowd examines the senate examining Wolfowitz.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1010982,00.html

There is no more delightful way to pass a summer's day in Washington than going up to Capitol Hill to watch senators jump ugly on Wolfie.

They waited, gimlet-eyed, on Wednesday while Wolfowitz of Arabia shimmied away once more from giving the cost, in lives or troops or dollars, of remaking a roiling Iraq.

Instead, he offered a highly dramatic travelogue of his recent Iraq trip, sleeping in Saddam's palace and flying with members of the Tennessee national guard, who made him "very unhappy" when they told him about their nearly two years of active duty. (Gee, whose fault is that?) He described Saddam's "torture tree", "unspeakable torture", "torture chamber" and "a smothering blanket of apprehension and dread woven by 35 years of repression".

Even now that it's clear the Bushies played up the terror angle because they thought it was the best way to whip up support for getting rid of Saddam, the administration refuses to level with the public. It dishes out the same old sauerkraut - conjuring up images of al-Qaida by calling Iraqi guerrillas and foreign fighters "terrorists". Meanwhile, the real al-Qaida may be planning more suicide hijackings of passenger planes on the east coast this summer, homeland security says.

They jumped his ass and chewed it out. Both sides. Biden especially at one point exasperated " Oh come on, give me a break! (with emotion) when are you guys gonna level with us" this in a response to the cost of the war. Another GOP Sen. when Wolfie was droning on about the reasons for war, interupts to say "I'm sorry but I'm a cynic, when you give these reasons, you have to give PROOF!"

It was great.

Or am I confusing names? Why is she writing for the Guardian? Not that I'm upset, just curious.

The article is

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The Guardian liked it, so they asked permission to borrow it for the Saturday edition. :bounce: