Maureen Dowd's Intelligence

IT’S HARD to get worked up over a Maureen Dowd column anymore. In fact, I usually skip not only her rants, but also the columns about Maureen Dowd columns. However her latest, about the new Osama bin Laden audiotape and the much-discussed al Qaeda-Saddam Hussein connection, deserves comment.

After opening with a how-weird-is-that proposition–bin Laden coming “to the rescue” of George W. Bush–followed by a series of points she assumes to be damning, Dowd gets serious: “The Bushies have been hellbent on making the 9/11 connection.”