Posted on 02/12/2003 1:01:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
Saying that phony "allies" have betrayed the United States, lawmakers are outraged that France, Germany and Belgium would let genocidal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein attack Turkey.
The House International Relations Committee's top Democrat, Rep. Tom Lantos of California, said Tuesday he was "particularly disgusted by the blind intransigence and utter ingratitude" of Paris, Berlin and Brussels.
"If it were not for the heroic efforts of America's military, France, Germany and Belgium today would be Soviet socialist republics," Lantos noted. "The failure of these three states to honor their commitments is beneath contempt."
The committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said, "America has fought distant wars to defend whole continents from a succession of aggressors, but the beneficiaries of the safety we have ensured often devote their energies to impeding our efforts to help others."
Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that if the United States is forced to bypass the alliance, "NATO will quickly atrophy."
Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Congress could consider reducing financial support for NATO.
Sure, the greedy "Axis of Weasel" wants to prop up Saddam because of the billions invested in his abusive regime, but the New York Post's Steve Dunleavy today suggested an economic response: a boycott of all things French and German.
"Let's see how fast Jacques Chirac, the president of the whine and cheese club, and Gerhard Schroeder, the German leader whose people enjoy a united Berlin thanks to President Ronald Reagan, react to that one," Dunleavy wrote.
I think Chirac knows this and doesn't care... seeing a better deal for himself at the end as the head of some pan-European alliance. But I get the sense that what's happening in Germany is Amateur Night at the Foreign Ministry, and that those guys are like kids playing with matches. |
"...What do these stupid ingrates think?" demanded the repected Liberal Congressman from California, "That we saved them from tyranny so they could conduct their own affairs as they see fit?"
The Congressman delivered his jerehmiad before a rapt gathering of Golden State third graders attending a workshop called: "How to Put the History of the World on the Bumper-Sticker of A Car".
The workshop is the brainchild of a group of Public School Teachers who want to inspire American students with an appreciation for history, but, at the same time don't want to tax them with a lot of details.
"We have a lot of hope invested in this 'history on a bumper sticker' idea. This visit by Representative Lantos to demonstrate to the chldren how fun bumper-sticker history can really be, certainly gives a great boost to the program," remarked Kay Mfunitob, an official of the National Education Association and founder of Afroshoe, a company that prints African history on basketaball shoes....
It's hard to believe, all right.
Let's pretend that the history of American military action and aid has been one of pure sacrifice with no taint of self-interest. Let's pretend that we "saved" Europe from themselves, and from all Evil for no other reason than because we are so Good.
OK. How long do they have to kiss our patootie in gratitude? How long? Forever? For two-hundered years? One-hundred years?
And if they have to kiss our patootie forever, isn't it incumbant upon us to inform future and present recipients of our unselfish aid that they will be expected to kiss our patootie forever if they are saved, liberated and protected by us?
Countries might want to be forwarned about this. Africa might want to look twice at our AIDS contributions. Israel might get worried, should we start demanding that they put our interests before their selfish, parochial interests.
You know, just in the interest of fair play and full disclosure.....
Five minutes would be nice. Don't forget, they wanted us to bomb the native Serbs out of Europe, and we obliged. And we still have troops there doing NATO's bidding.
It's more than agrandisement for them. If we Get possession of all the papers on where Saddam has gotten the equipment to restart his WMD programs these clowns could find themselves indicted for War Crimes in The Hague, just like the other Euro-Trash
Of course he said it. Lantos has seen a lot of horror in his lifetime and is one tough SOB. Usually on the wrong side but not this time!
"Hijacked on the Road to Bagdad--How the Conservative Movement Turned Into a Leftist Avalanche."
LOL!!!
This came out of a Dimrat's mouth!?
If so, it's the most honorable utterance from that group of morons in memory.
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I am pleasantly surprised by the number of Congressmen who are making these kinds of statements. It can only help Bush and Powell as they try to hammer this thing through the UN to have France and Germany hear noises coming from both sides of the aisle in Congress about tariffs, trade restrictions, "beneath contempt," "second-rate country" and so on. This lets them know that what they are doing is widely seen here as both serious and hostile; and that it will have long-term repercussions.