Mark Steyn: Iraqi spy case shows media at it again

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 14 March 2004 | Mark Steyn

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Mark Steyn: Iraqi spy case shows media at it again

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As it happens, the only big political ''lie'' in recent days came from Kerry, who told a meeting in Florida, ''I've met foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy, they look at you and say, 'You've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy.' '' The senator has spent most of the last year in Iowa and New Hampshire, which, for all their charms, are not where one goes to rub shoulders with ''foreign leaders.'' Jacques Chirac could have driven over the Granite State border from Quebec's Eastern Townships, where he was vacationing last summer. But he didn't. Kerry does not appear to have ''looked at'' any foreign leaders since he began his campaign.

And, if he had, he'd find them far less well-disposed to him than he imagines. Last Thursday, March 11, 2-1/2 years to the day after Sept. 11, nearly 200 people were murdered by terrorists in Spain. Like Britain, Australia and Poland, Spain is a member of what John Kerry calls Bush's ''fraudulent coalition.''

You can disagree with the administration on this war. I have. A few days after 9/11, I called for resignations from the agencies that failed on that day -- FAA, FBI, CIA, INS. Didn't happen. Still hasn't happened. It should. A couple of weeks after 9/11, I called for a total upheaval of America's relationship with Saudi Arabia. Didn't happen then. There are a few subtle hints that things are changing, but far too slowly. Anyone who took the war seriously can certainly find fault with the administration. But not if you stand there like a 5-year-old boy and never get beyond pointing your fingers and sticking your tongue out: ''Ooh, Bush lied. And Ashcroft's a big bully. And Cheney's stealing it all for his oil buddies. And you shouldn't mention the war in your campaign ads, because it's not fair. Nyaa-nyaa!''

Two hundred people died in Madrid because of a war Democrats refuse to admit exists. But, hey, you never know: Maybe the guy who did it will be a third cousin twice removed of Karl Rove.

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Sen. Kerry thinks the Bush administration are ''crooked'' and ''lying.''

I am late to this Steyn column, but have to add an observation from Pat Buchanan's discussion with Chris Matthews last night. (Two people I Rarely watch.)

The Kerry discussion was about his protest activities in the early '70s and Nixon's responses to Kerry. Buchanan said that Democrats hated Nixon, hence "Nixon's war," not "Johnson's war," or even "Kennedy's war." Over 500000 troops were in Vietnam when Nixon took office. Nixon ended the war. The Dems hated that a Republican did what a Dem president could not do.

I don't want to discuss the Vietnam war here, but think that since it is undoubtedly of such huge importance to Kerry, all parts of that era influence him. What do people generally call Nixon? -- "crook"

In Kerry's mind to call Bush a liar and a crook is just simple transferring of the qualities of Nixon onto Bush. In other words, all R presidents are liars and crooks to Kerry.

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