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[Dog Gone]

Amen.

[Revolting cat!]

Don't you worry, they'll have their quagmire even if they have to invent it!

[netmilsmom]

Ping for a dose of Mark!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

We have Steyn, they have Fisk. Who would deny that God is on our side?

[thoughtomator]

Conservativism vs. Leftism = a completely unfair fight.

Alas, our opponent insists on bringing dogma to a battle of wits.

[Southack]

No, no, no, NO!

The new anti-American spiel is that Iraq clearly wasn't a "threat" to the U.S. because they fared so poorly in their own war (as if giving WMD's and cash and providing training areas to terrorists wasn't a threat to the U.S.)...

[MeekOneGOP]

9) "Weapons of Mass Destruction. Remember them? Not a single one has yet been found" (Bill Neely, ITV, April 10). MBITRW: Actually, I almost wish this one were true. Anything that turns up now will be assumed to have been planted. If I were Washington, I'd consider burying anything I found. After all, an America that feels no need to bother faking justifications for invasion would be far more alarming to most Europeans. Instead, horrible things will turn up, but will never be "conclusive" enough for the French, who've got all the receipts anyway.

Bump !

See Zee monkey

French Military Victories

Spot the Difference

Separated at birth/one and the same?

And last but NOT least:

Chirac calls President Bush . . .

[Dark Glasses and Corncob Pipe]

Two months from now, the media will be whining, "We've still got troops in Iraq. Oh, the quagmireity!"

[facedown]

Instead, horrible things (WMD's) will turn up, but will never be "conclusive" enough for the French, who've got all the receipts anyway.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Bullish]

The left is consistantly wrong about everything, yet they never get blamed.

The right is consistantly right about everything, yet they get no credit.

It reminds me of Pelosi wanting to give Clinton credit for winning this war, while still stating it was wrong of Bush to wage it.

The left never gets anything right. and they never pay the price for getting everything wrong.

[Dark Wing]

ping

[Paul_B]

Thanks Pokey. Way to go, Mark. Loved the dig at Belgium's lack of national coherance.

[Cicero]

Somebody really should put up a separate post under breaking news for this little throwaway nugget:

the Prime Minister of Canada, whose daughter is married to TotalFinaElf's biggest shareholder

This is a blockbuster, which I have seen reported nowhere else.

[Gritty]

MBITRW: Steyn hits another home run!

[WOSG]

5) "Iraq was a new country cobbled together from several former Ottoman provinces, its lines drawn by the Europeans" (Mark Mazower, Independent, April 7). It's a phony state, you can never make a go of it. MBITRW: There's nothing in the least bit "cobbled" about it. The three Ottoman vilayets of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra have been bound together by geography and trade for millennia. As a coherent jurisdiction, it makes more sense than, say, Belgium. As long as you respect its inherently confederal nature, it'll work fine: think St Kitts and Nevis writ large.

As usual, mark Steyn's rapier wit skewers 'em good ... but I can do him one better on this score ... Iraq makes far more sense as a country than the *EU* does! Cobbled-tegether pastiche of territories that have never been together before and are being forced together for the worst reasons (selfishness, government aggrandizement and imperialism). That is the European Union!

[Clive]

"If I were Washington, I'd consider burying anything I found. After all, an America that feels no need to bother faking justifications for invasion would be far more alarming to most Europeans."

Well said.

[COBOL2Java]

Obviously, it would be preferable if the late Saddam's future media appearances were confined to guest-hosting Good Morning, Hell! with Osama.

My favorite line!

[McGavin999]

Looks to me like the only ones stuck in a quagmire are the pathetic journalists.

Fortunately, for the trade, a whole new journalistic style has been born in the blood and sweat of the Iraqi Freedom campaign. I admire and respect those who went with our troops and discovered the truth first hand. Hopefully, they will retain that crystal clear vision when they return home.