The Anglo-American alliance wins again

UPI | 4/07/03 | Martin Walker

[My2Cents]

In other words, the English speaking nations save the world again! (Churchill would be pleased.)

[JohnHuang2]

Ping..

[My2Cents]

With the successful end of military operations only a matter of days if not hours away, I've noticed that the hand-wringers have switched to the post-Saddam reforms. They're now griping about this. I have a hunch that the nay-sayers will be just as wrong about their doom and gloom over the establishment of a new government in Iraq as they were about the doubts regarding the military phase.

[Gefreiter]

(Set sarcasm switch to "ARM"):

I just don't know WHAT to believe anymore. The Iraqi foreign ministry, claiming that US forces are dying in great numbers far away from Baghdad; Robert Fisk at Arab News, who has not seen any US/UK forces near Baghdad or the airport, but strong defenses thereabouts; or this report from UPI and dozens of other embeds.

(Set sarcasm switch back to "STANDBY")

[Teacher317]

We make a good team!

[thatdewd]

The rule of Saddam Hussein is over.

Golly-gee-willickers, that can't be true, early this morning I listened to a BBC correspondent report (gleefully) to the main desk that it had been "confirmed" that the American forces that entered Baghdad had been "CRUSHED". Gee, they wouldn't lie would they?

[MeekOneGOP]

Bumpity bumpity bumpity . . .

Their war plan vindicated, their critics at least briefly silenced, the two English-speaking leaders who had defied so much of world opinion and conventional wisdom enjoyed another extraordinary bonus as their predictions of a liberator's welcome by the Iraqi people finally came true.

Confounding the Arab media and the pundits who had talked darkly of a new spirit of Iraqi patriotism resisting the invaders, the people of Basra braved gunfire to dance in the streets and cheer for the British troops who finally broke the grip Saddam's dreadful regime had exerted on Iraq for so long. This reporter saw one Basra citizen even kiss a British tank.

[dead]

Mohammad Said al- Sahhaf really is the funniest guy on television.

He should fill-in for Letterman.

[My2Cents]

Hey, I checked your member's page. Is that you on the hog? Excellent!

[My2Cents]

This reporter saw one Basra citizen even kiss a British tank.

...My favorite line

Can we blame Bush and Blair if they gloat a little this week?

[My2Cents]

Notice how Baghdad Bob took a quick powder as soon as the American 3rd ID (which was only a couple of blocks away) started firing their weapons?!

[MeekOneGOP]

I certainly couldn't blame them . . .

[July 4th]

Strengthen it further, by allowing British and American -- and Australian -- citizens to live and work and study and trade in one another's countries at will.

This is a great idea, but Britain is essentially stuck dealing through the EU with employment issues.

[afuturegovernor]

How many times has the once small and unimportant tribe called the Anglo-Saxons saved the day??

The English speaking family is one you don't want to mess with.

[cpdiii]

In other words, the English speaking nations save the world again! (Churchill would be pleased

Except Canada. If Quebec could be so kind as to become a part of France again, Canada would be far better off.

[george wythe]

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It is very odd. The Americans and British stand for a world based on a handful of principles that have stood the tests of time: representative and democratic government; free speech and free press; free economies, free trade; human rights and the rule of law.

No need to reinvent the wheel.

That's the road map for the whole Middle East from Iraq to Palestine.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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