[Pokey78]

FINALLY!

I've been having severe Steyn withdrawls!

[Tax-chick]

Thanks! I'm glad he's back on the job.

[M. Thatcher]

I've been having severe Steyn withdrawls!

DITTO!!!!!

Thanks for the ping.

[Amelia]

I've been having severe Steyn withdrawls!

Me too! Thanks, Pokey!

[headsonpikes]

Steyn with or without a drawl bump.

;^)

[Rummyfan]

Thanks Pokey - I was suffering withdrawal too and wondering where our One-Man Content Provider had gone!

[patricia]

"I've been having severe Steyn withdrawal!"

I can certainly relate to that statement!


Went to Steyn's website a couple of times, so knew he was out of pocket ... but did not think about where he might be. IT FITS WITH HIS MO ... that he would go to Iraq to SEE FOR HIMSELF. Gotta love such depth of character and devotion.

THANKS FOR THE POST AND THE PING!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Great article. This is something the Democrats and the liberal media don't want to hear. Their doom and gloom war-scenario didn't occur, so they're relying on doom and gloom post war-events, however, that's not happening either… so now it's, where are the WMD and without them GW is doomed, LOL! at this point the WMD are becoming irrelevant. It was a just war and people are better off without Saddam.

[Travis McGee]

Ping!

[lainde]

Wow...I thought he was maybe ill or really fired from the Post! Life is back on track with a good Steyn! Thanks Pokey!!!!

[metesky]

:O)

[American in Israel]

I've been having severe Steyn withdrawls!

Me too! Thanks for the ping.

[MeekOneGOP]

Finally is right! Thanks.

I'm pleased to report, then, that the obscene Oil For Food programme has been radically privatised. In much of Iraq, the government petrol stations have been pillaged and the gas pumps stripped of their metal panels so that they stand on two thin metal pins, their hoses hanging loose, like R2D2 before he goes in for a service. Instead, entrepreneurial Iraqis stand along the roadside with small tanks of mysteriously acquired petrol. Heading back to Jordan, I pulled up in the desert. "How much for a fill-up?" I asked.

"Ten dollars," the man said.

"I've only got a 20," I said.

"That's good," he said. "Bush," he added, pointing to the picture of Andrew Jackson on the bill.

"Close enough," I said. Afterwards, he wanted another 20 for his seven-year-old boy. I'm a softie but not that soft, so I fished out a Canadian 20.

"What this?" he said suspiciously. "American one dollar?" He pointed to the Queen's portrait. "Who this?"

"George Washington," I said.

He'll have a hard job getting rid of the Canadian but that Yankee 20 he'll change in one of the stores back in town and he'll do himself and the local economy more good than the UN's bloated boondoggle ever will.

Of course, this is only one guy's experience of Iraq. But I'd like to think that it's catching on.

[RobFromGa]

thanks for the ping, fantastic article. should win a Pulitzer.

[LisaFab]

Thanks Pokey, I was jonesing for Steyn also.

[Paul Ross]

Thank GOD! I was worried for him on this assignment. This line alone justifies the wait:

ramshackle auto shops with their mounds of second-hand tyres, all these are open for business, and in the end they're more relevant to the future of Iraq than the legions of unemployed Saddamite bureaucrats in Baghdad or the NGO armies in their brand new, gleaming white Chevy Suburbans and Land Rovers cruising the streets touting for business like drug pushers in search of junkies.

[conservativemusician]

I was wondering where he's been.

Steyn is awesome as usual. We really need him at a major media outlet in the U.S.


Thanks for the ping.