[MadIvan]

This is Straw's finest hour. Message to the French: your lying, obfuscations and cynicism is not going to work anymore. We've kicked your arse for nearly a thousand years - a diplomatic skirmish like this is nothing in comparison. You will lose, and look more the fools for losing.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Miss Marple]

Unexpected heroes emerge. God bless Jack Straw, it was indeed, his finest hour.

[Ramius]

Agreed. I watched Straw this morning and it was masterful. I half expected Powell to jump up and high-five him.

I wouldn't call it "vitriolic" though. It wasn't meanspirited at all. He was aggressive to be sure, but orderly and precise. It was enthusiasm, not vitriol.

[BCrago66]

America and Britian - or Britain and America, if you wish, will liberate an oppressed people. Again.

Because that is who we are, and that is what we do.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Egad. I didn't suspect the old boy had it in him. Tally ho!

[syriacus]

I'm impressed by Straw's performance (from what I read about it here and what little of it I saw on TV).

[ellery]

Yes, Straw was wonderful.

[Texas_Jarhead]

yea, I've got hand it to him. Until recently I didn't think too highly of him but I applaud his efforts now.

[Dubya]

Great post. Long live England and thank you Jack Straw. This is a good start to put the world back on the course it should be on.

[OldFriend]

Tony Blair and Jack Straw are the most admired men in the world, after our beloved George Bush. Just the opinion of this senior citizen.

[swampfox98]

I say, Jack Straw for Secretary General of the UN! -- and not Bill Clinton. Sadly, I think we are doomed to get Clinton though.

[prairiebreeze]

A standing ovation to Mr. Straw. I would have loved to see Villipin "sitting and taking it" and his "rage".

Priceless.

Prairie

[jigsaw]

Straw's speech was masterful.
And if I heard correctly, didn't he receive applause when he finished speaking?

[Calpernia]

Ivan, any idea at all if the British troops will have to pull out if the new resolution is vetoed?

[EternalVigilance]

"The strong outside pressure is, and let's be blunt about this, the presence of over 200,000 US and UK young men and young women willing to put their lives on the line for the sake of this body the United Nations."

I've heard great things about Mr. Straw's performance today, and I salute him for cutting loose on the appeasers of mass-murderers and terrorists.

He is certainly correct in his assertion that the only thing that has caused this pathetic little bit of movement is the presence of American and British forces; which are very close to being prepared to wipe Hussein and his regime from the face of the planet.

But if he thinks a single American is there 'for the sake of the United Nations', he has spent far too much time in the confines of the globalist's ivory towers.

Every conservative Republican I know---and I know alot of them---will henceforth meet every dollar spent on the U.N. by the US taxpayer with bloody screams and recriminations against any politician stupid enough to vote for it.

Average Americans didn't like it before, but it is a new day. We hate their guts.

That's reality---and the idiotic fools have no one to blame but themselves.

[Iowa Granny]

I saw clip of this speech on FNC. It was an absolute delight to watch.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I saw Straw today. He was brilliant.

He deserves to be invited down to Crawford for an old fashioned cook out..........

Texas style!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mister Magoo]

If it's at all possible, the French are worse than the Iraqis. At least Hussein is straightforward in his contempt and disdain for us. The French are simply traitorous, backstabbing scum.

[AgThorn]

'The presence of "young men willing to put their lives on the line for this body, the UN", was the key factor in compelling Saddam to make concessions, not diplomacy, he said. '

Amen!! I have got to see the repeat of this on C-Span!!! Tell me when!!

[Jim Noble]

Past Calais it's all wogs.