[Pokey78]

[Tax-chick]

Yippee! Another Mark Steyn.

Interesting slip(?) here: I was in favour of whacking Saddam because the price of leaving him non-whacked was too high for America's broader interests.

Does Mark really think of himself as an American? He'd be welcome to move into my swell new spare room in NC while he sorts out his citizenship ...

[MEG33]

Commonsense from Steyn. They are having a feeding frenzy in Britain .

[Travis McGee]

In Kirkuk the other day, they found another mass grave, this time with the bodies of 200 children who had been buried alive.

Yawn. Doesn't count.

Wake me if they find a toxic warhead among the teeny skulls.

[eeman]

It is hard to believe that Great Britain once ruled an empire. Of course it is hard to believe that this country had the courage and the tenacity to fight two powerful foes in the 1940's and then elect Clinton less than 50 years later

[Amelia]

Steyn hits another one out of the ballpark. He's been on quite a roll since he returned from the Mideast, hasn't he?

[MeekOneGOP]

Good article, thanks ! Ping for those who may have missed it.

Mark Steyn: The British wrest defeat from the jaws of victory

Excerpt:

In America, Mr Blair is still Churchill. In Britain, Mr Blair has fast-forwarded to the Churchill of 1945: his own party never liked him, his wartime coalition with Clement Duncan Attlee has broken up, and the ingrate voters have had enough of wartime austerity - the wretched hospitals, the broken trains - and would like a domestic panderer rather than a global colossus.

Fair enough. Settle your differences with Blair at the next election. But on this issue he was right, and there's nothing to be gained for British Conservatism in subscribing to theories of deliberate deceit that in America are exclusively the province of paranoid cranks. Some of those besmirching British victory in a noble cause should be ashamed of themselves.

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest orUnited Kingdom ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"That's why, if you notice, the axis of weasels (France, Germany, Russia) and its short-pants league (Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada), while undoubtedly enjoying Mr Blair's discomfort, have nevertheless declined to join in the show-us-the-sarin taunts. They know what their intelligence services say ..."

Worth repeating. It really is incredible that the victors are now attacking their own.

[Hildy]

They don't get it...Saddam Hussein and this thugs WERE the weapons of Mass Destruction. Yeesh.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Insofar as this is a serious argument, let's rebut it in terms the armchair accusers can understand: Liberty. Not the liberty George W Bush has brought to Iraq, which Eurosophisticates are so sniffy about, but the Liberty on Regent Street. I once ordered a sofa from Liberty and, as is the way, I had to wait till they made it. They didn't have the sofa itself, but they had sofa capability. That's what counts: capability, not inventory. It would obviously be easier to wait and pick the evidence of WMD out of the rubble of Birmingham, but for the Americans it is capability that's the determining criterion.

It is so perfectly clear. Why is this so hard to understand.