The Quarrel Over Iraq Gets Ugly

New York Times ^ | January 26, 2003 | SERGE SCHMEMANN

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Axis of weasel bump.

[demkicker]

It's times like this that I regret the USA is so vunerable to free trade. I see clearly now that the US MUST deal with scoundrels in order to keep our economy afloat.... tsk, tsk. I'm getting more and more pissed off at this frustrating situation everyday.

[Jumper]

The Europeans have withdrawn from the world scene, while protected under American Seuciry agreements... into their own world of socialist medicine and self interests.... Now, Europeans find themselves with increasing financial obligations for their own socieities and no military power worth mentioning. Europeans, especially France and Germany, have taxed themselves into a situation in which they literally cannot "afford" any bumps in their financial dealings - Iraq is just such a bump which both France and Germany profited nicely from and the gravy train will end. It is especially hard for trade partners like Iraq-France and monetary union allies like France-Germany to distance themselves from one another when "money" links all three like a bad marriage.

[expatpat]

The axis of weasels includes the NY Slimes.

[Dog Gone]

I don't see how the weasels have slowed us down in any way.

[Happy2BMe]

Great Post!

The French have hated our guts since the day we liberated Paris.

It's a wonder they haven't dug up the graves of Americans killed saving their rotten hides on the beaches of Normandy.

German Postcard Circa 1940

To My Eva . .

[Rockitz]

Follow the money. They don't want to pay the price for our victory, but guess who'll be wanting to get the high priced contracts and do the work to rebuild Iraq. I think the US should be able to exclude companies from France and Germany and any other country who doesn't joint the coalition of forces. Weasels!

[Rome2000]

Most European governments are socialist and hate W and the GOP, which is why they are opening up a big weasel mouth about us making the world a safer place by eradicating the nutcase Saddam.

If Clinton or Gore were in the White House they wouldn't say a thing.

European socialists, in league with American socialists in the Democratic party and the leftist press are doing everything they can to prevent a Republican American President from suceeding in any endeavor.

They will fail.

[Lancey Howard]

Where's Hank Scorpio when you need him?

[Lancey Howard]

Great post!

[NewYorker]

Post September 11th, you would have expected a united Europe to stand squarely on the side of freedom and democracy. It's sad that the leaders of some formerly great nations lack the moral clarity to distinguish right from wrong and good from bad.

[copycat]

I don't see how the weasels have slowed us down in any way.

To allow them to slow us down is to give them power.

[LibWhacker]

The Quarrel Over Iraq Gets Ugly -- read: The Good Guys Aren't Backing Down.

The hate America crowd is really messing its pants.

[VaBthang4]

"For the French, Germans and many other Europeans, the administration's single-minded determination to oust Saddam Hussein evokes perceptions of a power deaf to its allies and prepared to wreak havoc in the name of its own sense of mission, even though Europe supported the United States in the Balkans and Afghanistan."

The above statement....much like the rest of the article...is profoundly misleading. Allow me to give the examples.

"For the French, Germans and many other Europeans..."

No...actually far more European Nations support us. The minority voice in Europe opposes what we are ready to do.

"the administration's single-minded determination to oust Saddam Hussein evokes perceptions of a power deaf to its allies and prepared to wreak havoc in the name of its own sense of mission"

Nicely worded huh? Let's try America's [Administration attempts to highlight Conservatives] focus on removing a megalomaniacal Dictator cut from the same cloth as Europe's own Hitler, who has already attempted to assasinate one American President, Who has been feverishly working to build a Nuclear Weapon and who already has Chemical and Biological weapons. America simply wont be preached to by lightweight Socialist welfare states in Europe who themselves have no moral ground to stand on.

"even though Europe supported the United States in the Balkans and Afghanistan"

Now the writer speaks of Europe as a single entity though earlier it was "the French, Germans and many other Europeans". Nice try. Neither the French nor Germans supported what we were doing. They knew there was absolutely nothing they could do about it....period. And the financial losses they would incure were minimal. To say "Europe" supported us in going after the Taliban and Bin Laden is brutally hilarious.

But of course...there is no Liberal bias in the media.

~Grin~

[Dog Gone]

Leaders of formerly great nations

[M Kehoe]

Given how the Europeans have conducted their affairs over the last century, the last place to seek advice would be there.

5.56mm

[Cicero]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. After quietly ignoring more than two years of crude and violent insults against America and Bush (warmongers, imperialists, morons, cowboys, capitalist pigs, hegemonists, etc., etc.), one rather mild remark from Rummy has knocked back them on their heels.

"Old Europeans," indeed. What an insult! Well, they are old Europeans. And, as the NY Post so aptly pointed out, they are scheming weasels, too. They need to have their noses rubbed into a little reality.

[Cicero]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. After quietly ignoring more than two years of crude and violent insults against America and Bush (warmongers, imperialists, morons, cowboys, capitalist pigs, hegemonists, etc., etc.), one rather mild remark from Rummy has knocked back them on their heels.

"Old Europeans," indeed. What an insult! Well, they are old Europeans. And, as the NY Post so aptly pointed out, they are scheming weasels, too. They need to have their noses rubbed into a little reality.

[LibWhacker]

America simply wont be preached to by lightweight Socialist welfare states in Europe who themselves have no moral ground to stand on.

Amen to that, brother.