Letters to the Editor
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With friends like these.....
Like everything else, the Bush administration has given new definintion to yet another concept.
Friend: Someone for whom you express admiration, respect, even affection when they are about to, or already have, taken the fall from grace. But this must be done in the media, preferably on Fox, Hannity, Rush Limbaugh or in an op ed in the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal. The definition of friendship does NOT include picking up the phone or grabbing lunch to say..."gee, I'm there for ya, buddy". That would be too honest. And as everyone knows, anything said by Bush, Cheney or the neozombies is truth, if it is SPOKEN in the media. No need to follow it up with inconvenient and unpleasant ACTIONS.
Kind of reminds me of the lack of Bush conversation with Gonzales for weeks...even though he publicly SAID to everyone else that he supported the AG. I'm guessing Wolfowitz' phone isn't ringing off the hook, either, in spite of all the public and scripted "support" from his "friends" in the administration.
And hats off to Cheney for finding yet a new use for the ever-handy, "I can't talk about an ongoing case". That covers pretty much everything these days. Even friendship.