Stephen Green fisks the newly returned (but not missed) MoDo column:

They like him even though Osama and Al Qaeda are still lurking and frothing, even though we couldn't get through the holidays without an orange alert and flights being canceled, and even though Iraq is still a free-fire zone after a war to get rid of weapons that may not have existed.

"Free-fire zone?" Sounds cool, doesn't it? Unfortunately, Ms. Dowd doesn't know what the phrase means. "Free fire" means soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen can shoot at, fire on or blow up anything that moves. Or even anything that doesn't move. Hell, most of Iraq wasn't under free-fire rules during the three weeks of major combat last spring. But let's not let definitions get in the way of using mean-sounding military jargon.

And the first three quarters of her sentence is nothing more than a whine amounting to, "What do you mean the war isn't over yet? We had a battle and everything."

Oh, and Maureen? The weapons did exist. Saddam used them to gas Kurds, Marsh Arabs, and Iranians. Wake up, sister.
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