Dowd Gets It Wrong!!!

I know it's a shock, but Maureen Dowd got it all wrong in her column today. She's writing about investigations into pre-war intelligence on Iraq, and lamenting that no one's investigating how the White House influenced intelligence in Saddam's WMD program.

Dowd knows what happened, in fact, "We all know what happened. Dick Cheney and the neocons had a fever to sack Saddam. Mr. Cheney and Rummy persuaded W., 'the Man,' that it was the manly thing to do." Manly? What? Did she want him to take do the womanly thing to do? Did Bush invade Iraq for no other reason that to improve is strut score?

Anyway, here's how Dowd sees the investigations that look at the intelligence community to figure out what's wrong with the intelligence community:

That's like an investigation into steroids in baseball that looks only at the drug companies, not the players who muscled up.

Actually, Maureen, I think the analogy you're looking for is "... that looks only at the owners, not the players who muscled up." The drug companies ... the WMD manufacturers ... have little to do with finding the conclusions you want to find. Oh, and included in "the owners" would be the owners of the French and German intelligence teams, who's pre-war intelligence was instrumental in convincing the administration of the reality of Saddam's WMDs.

Update: And as to the reality of those WMDs, which MSM continues to "La-la-la I don't want to hear it" about, see this post by Cassandra.

Back to Dowd. Not surprisingly, the words "France" and "Germany" do not appear in her column. Funny. But then, she explains why, leading off the column with a shocking acknowledgement of liberal bias in the media, and that bias' role in keeping her on as the NYT's yapping lapdog:

I had an editor once whose wife was in the Audubon Society. There were a lot of articles about birds in that newspaper.

I had an editor once who loved fishing. There were a lot of articles about fish in that newspaper.

Organizations organically respond to please the boss. Bosses naturally surround themselves with people who tell them what they want to hear.

She has an editor who is in the Anti-Bush League, and there are a lot of bush league articles in her boss's newspaper.