febrúar 12, 2003
Osama, Írak og allt það
Í dag skrifa Thomas Friedman og Maureen Dowd pistla í NYT.Friedman skrifar m.a.:
France, China and Russia have to get serious, but so do we. The Bush talk that we can fight this war with just a "coalition of the willing" — meaning Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — is dangerous nonsense. There is only one coalition that matters to the average American and average world citizen. It is one approved by the U.N. and NATO. We may not be able to garner it, but we need to be doing everything we can — everything — to try before we go to war.Reyndar finnst mér pistill Maureenar mun skemmtilegri í dag.
Hún segir m.a.:
In the past, Condi Rice has implored the networks not to broadcast the tapes outright, fearing he might be activating sleeper cells in code.Maureen er ein fárra kvenna sem skrifa lipra pistla um heimsmálin. Hún hefur skemmtilegan stíl, bland af kaldhæðni, ímynduðum "leikþáttum", stórorðum yfirlýsingum og hæfilegri ósvífni. Einsog t.d. þessi pistill sem hefst á orðunum: "Osama bin Laden came to the rescue of George W. Bush yesterday."
But this time the administration flacked the tape. And Fox, the official Bush news agency, rushed the entire tape onto the air.
So the Bushies no longer care if Osama sends a coded message to his thugs as long as he stays on message for the White House?
To get Saddam, the Bush administration is even willing to remind the American public that it failed to get bin Laden. Its fixation on Saddam seems to have blinded it to the possibility that Osama might be perversely encouraging America in this war.
The administration and Al Qaeda both have a purpose for invading Iraq, and both want a regime change.
Agust skrifaði 12.02.03 15:33
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