Just Like Monica

National Review ^ | Feb. 5, 2003 | Mark Steyn

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Powell speaks to the frivolous.

By Mark Steyn

few days ago, I said this thing was getting like Monica: by the time you're in Year Two, no smoking gun is ever quite smoking enough. It's perfectly obvious from Colin Powell's presentation what's going on. Ten minutes before the flatfoots show up, the bootleg liquor is whisked away, replaced by teacups and the gaming table gets dropped through the trapdoor and replaced by an ornamental fountain. If you think Saddam Hussein is a lovable rogue — as Mr. Chirac does — this is all part of a grand ongoing comedy, to which the French and Russians made their own exquisite contribution by proposing to strengthen the monitoring regime by doubling the number of inspectors, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum. If the Powell evidence made anything plain, it's this: The idea of "monitoring" a dictator is ludicrous. Saddam is quite happy to participate for another decade or two in an eternal ongoing U.N. field study of dictatorship.

Resolution 1441, painstakingly negotiated by General Powell and French Foreign Minister de Villepin, was never a test of Saddam. It was a test of the U.N. The faxed-in boilerplate responses to the Powell presentation couldn't have been clearer.

France: "They raise questions which deserve further investigation…." China: "We support the continuation of inspections…." "Russia welcomes the continuation of dialogue…. We hope that this dialogue will be extremely concrete…. The Security Council may need to adopt a new resolution, and perhaps more than one…."

Four, five, nine, there's always room for one more. You got the feeling that if they could have dragged out their expressions of condolences regarding the space shuttle for the full seven minutes, they'd have been happy to do so.

This is serious business. The U.S. and British remarks were sober and credible. The French, Russian, and Chinese were frivolous. The most relevant observation was Powell's assertion of al Qaeda's presence in Iraq for the last eight months. If that's accurate, it's not a U.N. matter, it's a threat to America's national security. Which shouldn't be dependent on the whims of the French veto.

— Mark Steyn is a columnist for Britain's Daily Telegraph and Canada's National Post. His website is www.marksteyn.com. A collection of some of his post-9/11 columns, The Face of the Tiger has just been released and can be ordered here.

[wardaddy]

if even knowledge of the full horrors of Auschwitz and other concentration camps would have been enough to rouse peaceniks to pull their heads from out of the sand

It sure would if the killers were European or American and the victims were minorities.

[Cacique]

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[xJones]

Oh, that made me madder than anything, those expressions of condolence. Followed by a stab in the back.

Thank you, I thought I was alone in my reactions to those faux (polite spelling) expletives expressions of condolence.

[B4Ranch]

The most relevant observation was Powell's assertion of al Qaeda's presence in Iraq for the last eight months. If that's accurate, it's not a U.N. matter, it's a threat to America's national security. Which shouldn't be dependent on the whims of the French veto.

Only UNamericans put the UN ahead of America.

Then why did Bush even go to the UN?

[Travis McGee]

Window dressing. A velvet bow wrapped around the bomb.

[par4]

If you think Saddam Hussein is a lovable rogue — as Mr. Chirac does — this is all part of a grand ongoing comedy

Mr. Chirac must have not seen a good comedy since Jerry Lewis quit making movies, therefore he's making his own.....

[Aric2000]

Exactly Travis, the UN has become irrelevant, and Bush put the noose around it's Neck himself.

Powell just pulled the handle, it will take a few more days for them to reach the end of the rope, but when they reach it, the neck will break and the UN will be on the ashheap of history as well.

Bush has done them in, and he did it on purpose and with intent!!

[metesky]

Bush has done them in, and he did it on purpose and with intent!!

Not only that, he told the stupid ba$tards he was doing it.

Bye bye, UN!

[Brian Allen]

<< The most relevant observation was Powell's assertion of al Qaeda's presence in Iraq for the last eight months .... that's .... not a U.N. matter, it's a threat to America's national security.

Exactly.

F#*k you UN. F#*k you France. F#*k you Germany.

These people killed 3000 innocent American civilians. They want to kill millions more.

We will deal with them. You will decide whether you want to side with us or them.

And we will never forget your decision. >>

Thank you.

Refreshing.

An American Man of few words.

And after me own heart!

[Quix]

Agree.

What a charade.

What a dance.

Clearly there's enough stupidity

and enough skullduggery to sink a fleet of Titanics.

Maybe we should start calling Chirac Saddddammmnnn's left-left mouth and Germany's leader Saddddaaammmnn's left mouth. Or Chirac the left fork of Sadddammnn's tongue and Germany's leader the right fork of Saddammn's forked tongue.

Or we could just call them both Saddammn's used toilet paper.

Or perhaps "Friends in name only."

Or Franco Fool and German Goul.

Perhaps we could picture them--one on each side of Saddddaammmnn---tiny little men running along side of him with huge hands in each pocket . . . uhhh . . . at least fondling for funds.

Or maybe some of the trailer labs with logos of French companies and German companies on them--slightly modified, of course. . . maybe just the French and German flags?

[laredo44]

I know them. I have never heard them described better. Beautiful.

[conservativemusician]

Thanks Pokey.

[Quilla]

Oh, so you're the one who's still watching him. :)

Just as the German, French, and Chinese ambassadors had pre-written responses, many have pre-conceived ideas against this war. Nothing short of another massive attack (if even that) will change their minds.

[Mia T]

thx for ping.

 

 

If the Powell evidence made anything plain, it's this: The idea of "monitoring" a dictator is ludicrous. Saddam is quite happy to participate for another decade or two in an eternal ongoing U.N. field study of dictatorship

MARK STEYN, JUST LIKE MONICA.

The Powell evidence was, in fact, superfluous. For anyone capable of critical thinking, the absurdity of the task was self-evident.

What the Powell evidence did make plain, however, was this:

• the Democrats systematically and reflexively put their power over America's national security
• the Democrats are unfit to lead, especially in a post-9/11 world
• the clintons were utter failures and are America's biggest blunder.

 

 

Thou art arm'd that hath thy crook'd schemers straight.

Cudgel thy brains no more, the clinton plots are great.

 

Mia T, On Neutered and Neutering,

by Mia T and Edward Zehr (EZ)

 

 

IT IS OBVIOUS

 

By Mia T, 3-3-02

 

It is obvious to anyone who bothers to remove his political blinders. It is so patently obvious that even those whose political blinders are a permanently fixed fashion statement -- that is to say, even Hollywood -- can see it. (Just ask Whoopie Goldberg...or Rosie O'Donnell...) Bush's poll numbers are a reflection of this self-evident truth.

What is manifestly obvious and confirmed on a daily basis is the plain fact that Democrats are, by definition, constitutionally unfit to navigate the ship of state through these troubled, terrorist waters. Democrats were unfit pre-9/11, but few could see it then. It was 9/11 and its aftermath that made this truth crystal clear even to the most simpleminded among us.

The unwashed masses, the uninformed, the disinformed can see it now. All America can see it now. Self-preservation is kicking in, trumping petty politics at every turn.

And this is why Democrat demagoguery and stupidity and sedition are achieving new lows...

 We are witnessing the last gasp of a political relic. The Democrat party is not merely obsolete. As 9/11 and clinton-clinton-Daschle action and inaction have demonstrated, the Democrat party is very dangerous.

 We must now make sure that this fact, too, is obvious to all...

Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize

 

Bill Clinton may not be the worst president America has had, but surely he is the worst person to be president.*

---GEORGE WILL, Sleaze, the sequel

 

Had George Will written Sleaze, the sequel (the "sequel" is, of course, hillary) after 9-11-01, I suspect that he would have had to forgo the above conceit, as the doubt expressed in the setup phrase was, from that day forward, no longer operational.

Indeed, assessing the clinton presidency an abject failure is not inconsistent with commentary coming from the left, most recently the LA Times: "Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize."

When the clintons left office, I predicted that the country would eventually learn--sadly, the hard way--that this depraved, self-absorbed and inept pair had placed America (and the world) in mortal danger. But I was thinking years, not months.

It is very significant that hillary clinton didn't deny clinton culpability for the terrorism. (Meet the Press, 12-09-01), notwithstanding tired tactics (if you can't pass the buck, spread the blame) and chronic "KnowNothing Victim Clinton" self-exclusion.

If leftist pandering keeps the disenfranchized down in perpetuity, clinton pandering,("it's the economy, stupid"), kept the middle and upper classes wilfully ignorant for eight years.

And ironically, both results (leftist social policy and the clinton economy) are equally illusory, fraudulent. It is becoming increasingly clear that clinton covertly cooked the books even as he assiduously avoided essential actions that would have negatively impacted the economy--the ultimate source of his continued power--actions like, say, going after the terrorists.

It is critically important that hillary clinton fail in her grasp for power; read Peggy Noonan's little book, 'The Case Against Hillary Clinton' and Barbara Olson's two books; it is critical that the West de-clintonize, but that will be automatic once it is understood that the clintons risked civilization itself in order to gain and retain power.

It shouldn't take books, however, to see that a leader is a dangerous, self-absorbed sicko. People should be able to figure that out for themselves. The electorate must be taught to think, to reason. It must be able to spot spin, especially in this age of the electronic demagogue.

I am not hopeful. As Bertrand Russell noted, "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "

Mia T, hillary clinton blames hubby for terrorism

(SHE knew nuttin')

Meet the Press, 12-09-01

 

 

 

 

 

*George Will continues: There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that. ... Furthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism

 

Q ERTY3 co-rapist  bump!

THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER

Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992*

hear

*Thanx to Cloud William for text and audio

 

LEHRER: President Bush, your closing statement, sir.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Three weeks from now--two weeks from tomorrow, America goes to the polls and you're going to have to decide who you want to lead this country ...

On foreign affairs, some think it's irrelevant. I believe it's not. We're living in an interconnected world...And if a crisis comes up, ask who has the judgment and the experience and, yes, the character to make the right decision?

And, lastly, the other night on character Governor Clinton said it's not the character of the president but the character of the presidency. I couldn't disagree more. Horace Greeley said the only thing that endures is character. And I think it was Justice Black who talked about great nations, like great men, must keep their word.

And so the question is, who will safeguard this nation, who will safeguard our people and our children? I need your support, I ask for your support. And may God bless the United States of America.

(Applause)

 

play tape

HEAR:

 

• the attacks on America

   

• Dan Rather saying: terrorism came to America "bigtime" during clinton years

   

• Dan Rather relating OBL protégé, Ramzi Yousef threat to clinton FBI that the terrorists WILL complete the job

   

• the clinton non-response to terror

   

• FDR response (says national security a president's raison d'être)

   

• Bush response, "I can hear YOU...," "I [as opposed to clinton] will not wait on events, while dangers gather," etc.

   

• Mike Moran "Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass" battle cry

   

• "go home hillary!" chant, etc.

PART 1

PART 2

 

 

LEFT-WING TALK RADIO 2: "It's the terrorism, stupid."

 

by Mia T, 1-21-03

 

NOTE: Program in two parts.

Hear clinton stupidity, smallness, banality, fecklessness, ineptitude, prevarication, corruption, perfidy and utter failure directly from the rapist, himself. clinton provides the perfect foil for Bush, who makes a cameo appearance or two.

Pay special attention to Dan Rather's little story about terrorism hitting the U.S. "bigtime" during the clintons' tenure.

In particular, connect the following dots: the '93 WTC bombing. a certain bin Laden protégé and clinton's admission that he passed up bin Laden. Note clinton's spurious argument for this monumental failure.

To this day, clinton seems not to understand that bin Laden is -- and was in 1996 -- an enemy of the state, not a simple criminal.

clinton still seems not to get it -- the same terrorist --the terrorist he refused to take--hit the same building in '93.

Notwithstanding this, to hear clinton tell it, his disastrous decision not to take bin Laden when offered on a silver platter by Sudan, (arguably the worst decision ever made by a president), derived from his scrupulous avoidance of abusing power and trashing laws...

Yeah, right.

 

hear

 

THE INTERMINABLE clintons 

It's time to throw out the trash...

A Senate en passant capture is THE MOVE...

NEW AUDIO! Hear the Bill Bennett epilogue.

 

 

hillary clinton A SECURITY RISK: Removal Calls Begin

 

Another mistaken 'conceptzia'

[WHY AMERICA (& THE WORLD) CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER CLINTON]

 

THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER: Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992

 

Mrs. clinton's REAL virtual office -- 02.05.03 update

[wayoverontheright]

If that's accurate, it's not a U.N. matter, it's a threat to America's national security.

For me proving this link between Iraq and al-Qaeda is not necessary to the conclusion that Saddam must be ousted by force. Remember we are fighting TERROR, a concept, a nebulous force which does not present itself as a military entity which we could defeat and then be done with it.

To win, there must be consequences so dire to our enemies that the use of terror will no longer be considered.

Our goal of course, is to feel safe. We either have to militarily engage the entire Middle East OR decide that minds can be changed through CONSEQUENCES, a significant emotional event, if you will, for our enemies. Even though al-Qaeda attacked us, merely eradicating them has no consequence to terror as a useful tool for our enemies.

Since Saddam has built the most powerful terror threat in the region, it is Iraq that must be the example for the entire region. Our actions must be seen as punitive. He and his army must be annihilated and humiliated for all to see. Seizing control of the oil there must be the consequence which the rest of the region will see as quite dire, in that it will eliminate the last vestige of the only power they have over us.

Psychologically, it will be a tremendous blow to the region, a comeuppance they have been begging for and deserve. The perception of weakness which caused the terror cancer to metastasize would be replaced with the respect that only fear can restore.

[Redleg Duke]

I prefer the "Honey, quiet down and behave." "Honey, I said quiet down and behave!" "Honey" WHACK!

[Redleg Duke]

You really need to stop holding it in like that. It isn't healthy, you know!

[Redleg Duke]

The President had to give the UN an opportunity to clearly screw up on the world stage. Now that they have, they have loudly proclaimed their irrelevance to all.

[wayoverontheright]

The President had to give the UN an opportunity to clearly screw up on the world stage. Now that they have, they have loudly proclaimed their irrelevance to all.

Let's go do the deed and prove the domino theory. Iraq falls, then the UN, then the Democratic Party.

[Hatteras]

Mia T, you have done wonderful work and I, for one, appreciate that these reminders exist. Your posts have become a valuable tool. I do have one simple criticism though. Too much and too jumbled up. I never know where I'm going to wind up when I click a link. It's like stepping into a maze, I get confused and bail out too easy. Don't get me wrong, I'm fascinated with all the data that has been preserved, but it's like all those new commercials where everything's fast, flashing and cocked at an odd angle. It's confusing and I get antsy with the remote channel changer.

For what it's worth, JMHO