My Private Idaho

Maureen Dowd is looking for logic in BushCo's reasons for vacation, constitutional rights and war. Bush is running out of them and now the last reason - democracy is fading:

America has caved on Iraqi women's rights. In fact, the women's rights activists supported by George and Laura Bush may have to leave Iraq.

But, as a former C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on "Meet the Press," U.S. democracy in 1900 didn't let women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that, "we'd all be thrilled," he said. "I mean, women's social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy."

Not critical?!? I didn't realize that we or the Iraqis are living in 1900s America...