You're still a douchebag!

Richard Cohen connects "A" but apparently still cannot see "B" leading to "C":

Just about everything Washington said was happening (weapons of mass destruction) and would happen (an easy occupation) has turned out to be utterly false.

One could almost forgive President Bush for waging war under false or mistaken pretenses had a better, more democratic Middle East come out of it. But just as the 1991 Persian Gulf War introduced an element of instability in the region -- the rise of al Qaeda in response to the stationing of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia -- so might this one do something similar. A Shiite arc is forming, Iraq is infested with terrorists and coming apart, Syria might be going from bad to worse, and Saudi Arabia is complaining loudly that the war's only winners are the Shiites and Iran. From here, it looks like a war that is already going badly for America could go even worse for much of the Middle East.

Mission accomplished?

Yes, item "A", the war was based on false information (sometimes termed "LIES") both before the war, and by an entire series of lies afterwards.

But Cohen, only in the last month has been prattling on and on about how Fitzgerald's investigation into the outing of a CIA covert agent is the kind of thing that shouldn't be investigated, Item "B". Even though her outing is part & parcel with the lies that led to the war.

Which, of course, leads to the sum of the equation, "Item C" that the Bush Administration started an illegal war and punished those who might possibly oppose it no matter what, leading to their ultimate pattern, that the Bush Administration has got to go.

But this equation is too opaque to Richard Cohen, self-styled intrepid columnists and guest at all the best Washington parties. Give him the Champagne & the finest in Puff Pastries. Behold the size of those cocktail shrimp, why they are virtually Prawns. And that salmon is fantastic!

Cohen couldn't possibly give up this comfortable existence by thinking of those 298 million other non-D.C.-afied proles that inhabit this purported Democratic Republic.