Don't Leave Saddam Trial to the 'Jet Set'

Chicago Sun Times ^ | January 4, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[Snake65]

More Steyn genius

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[SandRat]

... once it became Euro-preeners prosecuting Serbs, an understandable resentment set in. Euro-preeners, I just love that word.

This is the justice Clark wants for Saddam Hussein. If he gets his way, Saddam seems a shoo-in for the Iraqi presidential election circa 2009.

Up to the moment Saddam popped out of the spider-hole, the international jet set's line was that deplorable as Saddam's rule might be -- gassing Kurds, feeding folks feet-first into industrial shredders, etc. -- it was strictly an internal matter for the Iraqi people. As usual, all hat and no cattle; that's the Jet-Set. The minute the old boy was in U.S. custody, the international jet set's revised position was that gassing Kurds, feeding folks into industrial shredders and so forth were crimes against the whole world and certainly not a matter for the Iraqi people. Instead, we need a (drumroll, please) United Nations-mandated international tribunal. This is a perfect example of the "Little RED Hen" syndrome; Conservatism is the only cure for it.

[visualops]

Excellent, succinct commentary.

[6ppc]

multilatte multilateralist establishment

LOL! I started reading it without realizing it was by Steyn, but when I saw that phrase I said to myself "Gotta be a Mark Steyn piece!"

[financeprof]

The "Clark for President" ad at the bottom of the article on the Sun Times' web site is a riot. Someone is either very stupid or has a wicked sense of irony to juxtapose that ad with Steyn's skewering of its intended benficiary.

[BlueLancer]

"...weapons inspector turned Saddamite shill Scott Ritter. ''The prison in question was inspected by my team in January 1998,'' he told Time magazine, a propos one grisly institution. ''It appeared to be a prison for children -- toddlers up to pre-adolescents -- whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene. Actually, I'm not going to describe what I saw there, because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace.''
Ritter is rare in the extent of his depravity: He saw the horror close up and opted to turn his back. But in the interests of ''peace,'' many others in the transnational elites did the same from a safe distance. It's too late for them to claim that the stuff they covered up now needs a full airing in an international court.

Worth bookmarking if only for this quote ... to be used against Trolls and peaceniks who advocate an "international" tribunal for Saddam.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'm not going to describe what I saw did there

Good for you Scotty...

[chiller]

...the international jet set's line was that...Saddam's...gassing Kurds, feeding folks feet-first into industrial shredders, etc. -- was strictly an internal matter for the Iraqi people. The minute the old boy was in U.S. custody, their revised position was that gassing Kurds, feeding folks into industrial shredders...were crimes against the whole world and certainly not a matter for the Iraqi people.

Oooouuucchh. That one's gonna leave a mark.

[Pokey78]

[mylife]

Mark puts another one out of the park!!

BAM!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

'Au contraire, right now it looks like Slobo is the only Serbian parliamentary candidate who's ever faced a U.S. general down.

LOL, oh man, he is good! I love his precise and sharp style.

[RobFromGa]

bttt

happy new year pokey, looking forward to another year of Steyn...

[Pokey78]

And a 'Happy new year!' to you too!

[Stultis]

Gen. Clark, who couldn't resist boasting that he's the only Democratic presidential candidate ''who's ever faced a dictator down. I'm the only one who's ever testified in court against one.''

We all know how Wesley "faces down" war criminals. Did the metrosexual general bring Slobo a bottle of brandy and a pistol?

[mrustow]

This is what the Zionist neocons would call chutzpah.

When this guy is on a roll, as he is here, he has such an abundance of wit, that even his throwaway lines zing people.

A day or two ago, I stumbled onto a neo-Nazi site, where such redundant insults were de riguer. Steyn may be mocking neo-Nazis, Islamists, and communists in the same breath.

[dennisw]

Great photo!

[Jean S]

Thanks for the ping Pokey.

[GOPJ]

On the money...

President Bush understands that the transnational establishment's interest in this case is not to pass judgment on Saddam but, by reasserting its authority, to pass judgment on America -- on its illegitimate war, illegal occupation, barbaric justice system, etc. The argument of the trannies is that only a Hague tribunal can confer ''legitimacy'' -- ''legitimacy'' being one of those great sonorous banalities that are at the heart of what's wrong with the international order, which, in the main, confers the mantle of legitimacy on a lot of ''illegitimate'' thugs.

[irv]

Coalition of the Willing: Saddam captured, Gadhafi neutered. The ''International Community'': Milosevic elected to Parliament in Belgrade.

This is a better piece of analysis right here than the mainstream media seems capable of.