Mark Steyn: This is not the time to wobble

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 01/25/03 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

[knighthawk]

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[Republic of Texas]

I think everything anyone in this Administration says is carefully calculated to confuse Saddam. And it appears to be working.

[Allan]

bump

[Let's Roll]

Steyn rules, rocks AND makes sense.

[Notforprophet]

Wow. Great Steyn!

[Gritty]

As usual, Steyn pulls off the husks to get to the kernels.

[goodnesswins]

DAY of SUPPORT…Tues, 1/28/03....FLY your flags (U.S., British, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Spanish, Quatar, Kuwaiti, Australian and Japanese one, too if you have them)....and put up your BUSH/CHENEY signs, (and the BIG W's on your SUV's) for the STATE of the UNION next Tuesday, Jan 28th, if you support the President, our MILITARY and the United States of America. PSST....pass it on.

[Rummyfan]

bttp!

[expatpat]

IMO, if Sadaam was eased out of Iraq without war, part of the terms would be a heavy US/UK presence in Iraq to find the weapons and get rid of the rest of the Nazis.

[speekinout]

Don Rumsfeld, perhaps the sharpest thinker in the cabinet, must know all this. So the only reason he’d say such a thing is that war’s going to start any day now. Isn’t it?

My fondest wish is that Bush will say, in his SotU speech next Tue, that the bombing has just begun.
Won't happen, but I'd like it.

[Restorer]

Mr. Steyn is slipping. I think Bush is exactly on his timetable. The war will probably take place in February, the best time of year in the area, just like the first Gulf War. And that's been the plan for the past year.

[The Vast Right Wing]

'These are imperfect statelets, but then so are Wales and Quebec and California.'

Ouch!

[foreshadowed at waco]

I wonder if there are any conflicted nudists, with a bush for Iraq and a rack for Bush. Still, we should be grateful that they’ve got pudenda to rally. In Iraq, according to Harold Pinter, millions of children are ‘born without genitals’. Something to do with ‘depleted uranium’, the Great Satan’s calling card.

I love Mark Steyn.

[terilyn]

"The re-making of Iraq is meant to rattle the terror-exporting Saudis.">

BINGO!

[sd-joe]

"I wonder if there are any conflicted nudists, with a bush for Iraq and a rack for Bush."

What a way with words. I am speechless.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for the bump -- great read!

[Turbodog]

I hope extra special precautions are taken to ensure that Saddam doesn’t escape. We need a confirmed kill this time. Imagine the outcry from the left if there is no confirmation.

[DB]

I don't have a problem with Rumsfeld's statement and I don't think he's going soft on Iraq. We are going into Iraq one way or another. Either by force or by invitation. For our people it would be much better if they were invited, as the loss of life would be far less. Rumsfeld also knows the likelihood of Saddam leaving voluntarily is very remote. Rumsfeld is simply putting the onerous on Saddam to avoid war.