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Mark Steyn: Iraq has never had it so good
The Spectator (U.K.) ^
| 03/27/04
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 03/25/2004 6:21:36 AM PST by Pokey78
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posted on
03/25/2004 6:21:36 AM PST
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Pokey78
To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...
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posted on
03/25/2004 6:22:57 AM PST
by
Pokey78
(Steyn: Leftists demonize Wolfowitz because his name begins with a big scary animal and ends Jewishly)
To: Pokey78
I love this man! There are few that are his equal with the English tongue!
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posted on
03/25/2004 6:25:13 AM PST
by
Toirdhealbheach Beucail
(Am fear nach gheibh na h-airm 'n am na sith, cha bith iad aige 'nam a chogaidh)
To: Pokey78
yet another brilliant steyn piece.
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posted on
03/25/2004 6:25:33 AM PST
by
jays911
To: Pokey78
nice
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posted on
03/25/2004 6:26:17 AM PST
by
chuckcam
To: Toirdhealbheach Beucail
What you said. Bump for lunchtime read...
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posted on
03/25/2004 6:27:24 AM PST
by
eureka!
(The shrillness of the left is a good sign.....)
To: Pokey78
Steyn is spot on, as usual.
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posted on
03/25/2004 6:28:18 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: Pokey78
19 per cent said they were much or somewhat worseIsn't that about the population of Sunni (Saddam's tribe) in Iraq?
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posted on
03/25/2004 6:33:43 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Pokey78
If its a choice between aggressive neocon optimism or the UNs slum-landlord approach to nation-building, I know which Ill take. Damn straight! Now get the Iraqis (and the Iranians) an NRA, so they can take down the next Saddam wannabe and his goons before they get started.
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posted on
03/25/2004 6:40:43 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." (2nd Kings 6:16-17)
To: Pokey78
"Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?
A campaign slogan if I've ever heard one... guys this has to be one the best unwitting wittiest statements of the campaign season. Something has to made of it... somebody with Internet design savvy should have fun with this one.
To: Pokey78
But, for whatever reason, all these movements are in the direction laid out by Bush in his Whitehall speech in November. Funny, isn't it, how that's working out for that dumb cluck from Texas? Is it conceivable that Dubya might not be quite the dope that the Berkeley left thought?
Steyn is a genius, can I get an amen?
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:03:45 AM PST
by
Starve The Beast
(I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
To: Pokey78
Ping
To: Pokey78
Many Iraqis are voting with their feet. The UN High Commission for Refugees, which was expecting about two million new refugees to flee from the war last year, instead found no takers. All the traffics the other way, and the UN is now closing down its camps around Iraqs borders owing to lack of business.
Didn't know this. Statistics can be very dry, but this one tells a story.
To: Pokey78; Freee-dame
As for Iraq needing UN legitimacy, why not ask the people? The UN to them means decadent bureaucrats like Hans von Sponeck, the former UN co-ordinator for Iraq who the other day expressed his preference for the order Saddam brought to the country, or the stinking sewer of the oil-for-food programme, a humanitarian intervention that turned into a money-laundering scheme for Saddams Western cronies. If its a choice between aggressive neocon optimism or the UNs slum-landlord approach to nation-building, I know which Ill take. Look at it this way. Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo? Steyn give us fabulous "talking points" every day.
PS: All the pundits and govt overseers who are "shocked" to learn that the Food for Oil Program was corrupt must have thought that Saddam built his military compound palaces by careful budgeting.
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:07:45 AM PST
by
maica
(World Peace starts with W)
To: Blood of Tyrants
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:09:31 AM PST
by
Lurker
(Don't bite the hand that meads you.)
To: Starve The Beast
Steyn is a genius, can I get an amen? Amen, with a Hallelujah chorus thrown in.:)
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posted on
03/25/2004 7:57:34 AM PST
by
xJones
To: Pokey78
Interesting..................
This story makes me wonder........
What will happen in iraq when our government stops the "rebuilding"?
When will it be determined that iraq can make it without a couple hundred billion of our money being poured in?
I guess it's out of the question to expect them to pay US back.
Will they send a gift at least? Even the prissy-pants french sent us a really big statue for saving their bacon.
Just wondering....................
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posted on
03/25/2004 8:07:58 AM PST
by
WhiteGuy
(Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
To: Pokey78; onyx; PhilDragoo; devolve; yall
Looks like Mark Steyn hits another one outta the park ...Many Iraqis are voting with their feet. The UN High Commission for Refugees, which was expecting about two million new refugees to flee from the war last year, instead found no takers. All the traffics the other way, and the UN is now closing down its camps around Iraqs borders owing to lack of business. The other day, the UNs Ashrafi Camp in Iran, after 30 years as the largest Iraqi refugee facility, threw in the towel when the last refugee went home. Despite being advised by UNHCR that it was unsafe to do so, a million Iraqis are said to have gone back. Not bad for a country which in Saddams day was the fifth-largest exporter of refugees.
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posted on
03/25/2004 8:24:38 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
To: Godfollow
A campaign slogan if I've ever heard one... guys this has to be one the best unwitting wittiest statements of the campaign season. Something has to made of it... somebody with Internet design savvy should have fun with this one.
I don't know about a campaign slogan, but it sure makes a great tagline.
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posted on
03/25/2004 10:48:47 AM PST
by
kingu
(Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?)
To: MeekOneGOP
That graphic.....BWAHAHAHAHA!!
Prairie
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posted on
03/25/2004 10:53:18 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(America will CONTINUE to fight for and defend freedom. Even Spain's.)
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