[Paleo Conservative]

Muslim leaders kept a united front of pressure on Washington to avert a strike against Iraq, saying it could unleash fresh turmoil in the Islamic world by widening a gulf between Muslims and the West.

I vote for turmoil and overthrowing the corrupt dictatorships in the Muslim world.

[Mohammed El-Shahawi]

There is no way Cheney is going to make a speech like this one without having hard evidence to back it up. It's becoming clearer and clearer every day that the bombshell is going to be dropped soon.

[mhking]

Qapla'!

[Dog]

I could care less what some french surrender monkey thinks.....

It isn't there families who wonder when and where the next terrorist attack takes place.

They should have to live less than 10 miles from a nuke plant ....and worry if something will happen all the while you have to live your life.

So all these naysayers can just stick it.....this is a struggle between US vs. THEM.....and we are going to see this thru!

[finnman69]

Here it comeeessssss, Here it commmmmmmeesssssss!

[Semper Paratus]

Just heard CBS's Bill Plante say that Cheney's speach today was 'toned down' and left open the possibility that UN Inspectors could come back in.

The national media will be wearing black armbands when Baghdad falls.

[PhilDragoo]

brushing off a groundswell of unease among European allies

Mix any metaphors you like, Reuters, you're still tres full of sh!t.

groundswell--1) broad deep ocean swell caused by a distant gale or earthquake 2) rapid spontaneous growth--see also peeing one's pantaloons

And, about that oxymoron: European allies

A fatal paradox akin to a time machine roadtrip to moon der Fuerher--the world would explode, and the heavens fall.

European >>>>>>>BOOM<<<<<<< allies

Preposterous.

worldwide skepticism

Fine. They can have the skepticism. We have the most freedom and the highest standard of living. Gotta go with us.

fresh round of critical remarks in many states, including close European ally France

Non, monsieur, eet eez not fresh, zees scepticisme --eet eez stale.

close European ally France

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

très drôle!

la mère de tous les oxymorons!

We await Chirac and his foreign minister Dominique de Villepin speaking out against the burning of the Israeli Embassy in Paris. . . .

[crickets]

. . .and denouncing Saddam Hussein in the strongest terms. . . .

[plus de crickets]

[Byron_the_Aussie]

.."simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Cheney said...

Actually, Mr Vice-President, there is doubt, even within the Pentagon, on that.

Now, you have an incredible array of intelligence-gathering resources at your fingertips. Please collate the evidence, call a press conference, and present it to the world (or US allies, at least) so we can get on board the Iraqi Express without simultaneously giving our domestic Left a knife, and then turning our backs toward them.

[RightWhale]

There is a talk show on radio early in the morning, 5 AM or so that I don't know the name of but sometimes I hear pieces of as I drift in and out waiting for the get-up alarm at 6. Today, though, the host was reading some kind of biography of Saddam's two sons. It was heavy stuff, horror and disgust.

Seems like there is more and more material coming out on Saddam all the time, and it gets worse every day. I don't know if it is deliberate to build the sense of revulsion like this, but if the moderates in Europe and America are paying attention, they have to be revising their opinions. Saddam must go, if legal grounds are not enough, then for aesthetics.

[Momaw Nadon]

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