Mark Steyn: It's not really about Saddam

National Post (Canada) ^ | 02/14/03 | Mark Steyn

[Brian Allen]

<< ..... the only real split is between Chirac, Schroeder and Belgium's Manekin Pis, on the one hand, and everybody else. America has never been isolated. >>

The only "isolation" America has ever practiced -- as defined and/or noted by the world's liberals -- has been to occasionally adhere to Constitutional restraints upon the uses of Our Nation's Blood and Treasure -- and to, rarely, act in the interests of individual Americans without first pretending to need EURO-peon counsel.

The old EURO-peons, spoilt by eight years of the craven prostrations of dead and decadent EURO-peonist KKKli'tonista co-serial-rapists and other gargoyles [Can't you just picture them; Shilala, Hitlery, Herr Reich, (The Fourth?) Hubbell and his daughter, et al -- and state's mouth-frothing Rubin and grotesque Notat Allbright all lined up waiting for a Monacaesque slobber at Manekin Pis] -- consider anything even slightly less amoral than that squalid parade to fit their new definition of "American isolationism."

&*&^%$#@ them!!

[moneyrunner]

Like Rush Limbaugh, Steyn validates my beliefs. Love him.

[BunnySlippers]

Is there a Steyn ping list? Is so, I'd love ot be added. :)
BUMP!

[RobFromGa]

This little guy is in charge of the whole country.

[Renfield]

Manekin Pis is a statue of a peeing boy in Brussels. It's a famous tourist attraction. Here's a link to a photo:

http://www.worldisround.com/articles/12611/photo5.html

[philo]

Classic!!!

Post of the month. JimRob Rack'em !

[ez]

The rift is easily explained. Iraq is a SOCIALIST country, led by the Arab Baathist Socialist Party. This socialism was imported from Michel Aflaq and France, who assisted Saddam in using his Leninst tactics to achieve power.

France and Germany are also trending socialist, and so this is not about anything but the old Cold War rift...capitalism v. socialism.

The danger of Saddam is that he is the Lynchpin which unites the Socialists (France, Germany, Russia, China, North Korea) with the Islamofascists (Al Queda, Wahhabists). THAT is why he must be taken down and the link between the nuclear armed socialists and arabs be severed.

[Robert DeLong]

Guy Verhofstadt Prime Minister of Belgium

[Pokey78]

You have been added.

[conservativemusician]

Thanks, Pokey.

Steyn does again....and again and again......

[Rummyfan]

Manekin Pis is a famous staue of a little boy urinating into the accompanying fountain. Located in beautiful downtown Brussels

[TomB]

There is an uncanny resemblance.

[XJarhead]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. It's not France being different "just to be different". It's France being "different" to wreck the Atlantic alliance, sever European ties to America, and remake the Continent in its image. It's the one explanation that fits the evidence best.

I love Steyn, but that may be his best piece of analysis yet.

[shattered]

but thank the Lord that Al Gore invented the internet so we all can read Steyn's columns

LOL - good one!

[eureka!]

Ahhh, Steyn. Bump...

[Remole]

We're not worthy!

We're not worthy!

[facedown]

...Monsieur Evil et Mini-Moi.

[Gritty]

Steyn is more than merely brilliant in his writing; he is uncannily perceptive in his analysis!

[Dog Gone]

What a strange world we live in, when Labour's Tony Blair is more conservative than Jacques Chirac, the leader of a French party that crushed the socialists in their recent election.

I guess that proves that Iraq isn't a conservative/liberal issue, despite how it's playing out in the country.

[Tares]

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