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"There are some people and some topics that should never, ever be allowed to come into contact with each other again.
Brownie on New Orleans.
Cheney on respect for the rule of law.
Rumsfeld on humility.
Colin Powell on honor.
Karl Rove on piety
Bush on foreign policy.
Bush on domestic policy.
Bush on environmental policy.
Bush on economic policy.
Bush on educational policy.
Bush on Christianity.
Bush on, hell, basic grammar or arithmetic.
And Tom Friedman on Iraq.
These are all people -- a short subset of a long and tragic roll of dishonor -- who have absolutely no credibility left.
None. At. All.
So when Mr. Suck On This...the father of the Friedman Unit -- leans back into the front seat with the grown ups to once again start yammering out declarative sentences and his trademark little rabbit pellets of unctuous know-it-all helpfulness, the fact that he is a thoroughly 3rd rate hack who poops out columns for the New York Fucking Times by recycling 20-year-old pilfered wisdom through his Bob Greene Folksy Wisdomator3000 is not what makes my flesh crawl.
It is simply that, any words on the subject of Iraq from Thomas Friedman other than a hand-written note reading "I am so, so, so, so fucking sorry" that he pins to his lapel as he walks into the sea come freighted with so much history, stupidity, blood and loss that the thought of him daring to touch the subject again makes me terribly sad.
And the thought of this dribbler collecting a pay check for doing it makes me physically ill."-driftglass
Critics should immediately post a response to a Friedman article, "You are not allowed to mention Iraq ever again...not in a million "Friedman units" you cowardly war cheerleader".
