Now, the game is finally over (Terrific Read)

AP via Ottawa Citizen ^ | Saturday, March 08, 2003 | David Warren

[polemikos]

Tougher position than expected from AP and Canada

[friendly]

Blix is an utterly corrupt bureaucrat chosen by the French over the strong objections of the US. For obvious reasons.

[MEG33]

I love David Warren. Earlier today several good Canadian columns were posted criticizing Cretien's handling of this.

[TheConservator]

What is going to happen?

The UN (maybe France, maybe France and others) will vote down the British amendment.

The US will, I predict, begin its attack within 24-48 hours of the vote.

And we will say to France et al. . . "We were willing to give them until May 17, but you voted it down."

Snicker.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Since their research method has consisted almost exclusively of making repeat visits to sites where weapons were known to have been stored in the past, their failure is remarkably easy to explain.

Any imbecile would know to inspect the top Iraqi military units for hidden WMDs.

But France, Germany and Blix don't even meet that qualification!

[polemikos]

Not familiar with Warren. I'll keep an eye open for more of his columns.

[Dog Gone]

There are many good Canadians. Some of them live here and some live in Canada, but none of them are in the Chretien government.

[friendly]

France is in big, big trouble. France is going down the toilette as Muslims continue to invade.

Dittos for Deutschland, as long as the immensely unpopular Schroeder (popularity polls below 20%) holds on to power. He will be expelled like an explosion of diarrhea at the next election. Many Germans support us.

[Post Toasties]

The joke of it is, the UN's inspectors have found no sign of the existing presence of U.S. and British forces in Iraq, although these latter are even more numerous than the inspectors' Iraqi minders.

More nails in the coffin of Old Yurrup's credibility.

[TheMole]

He has most of hi stuff on his web site David Warren Online.

[polemikos]

Thanks!

[WOSG]

it is an awesome read indeed.

His words express better than many of us could our indignation at the charade of inspections and their content-free retorts to the US/UK pleas to take seriously the disarmament of Iraq.

Remember Bush's line from the convention speech in 2000?

"They have not led. We will."

[Paul_B]

excellent analysis; very informative. More good guys from up north.

[Stopislamnow]

Actually this crossed my mind too and it felt sorta "right".

[Salvation]

Before the 17th?

[Wolfstar]

Thank you very much for posting this. The information about the covert war already underway in Iraq is tonic to my troubled heart. This is as much a war between the international Left and those of us who oppose them, as it is a war against Hussein and radical Islamism. I have been disheartened by the last couple of months, as the international Left seems only to have grown in strength, fed by their hatred for this American president and the nation he leads. Maybe, at long last, the tide is beginning to turn.

[P.O.E.]

The resolution expressly contradicts the position now taken by France, Germany, and Russia; the onus from the beginning was not on the inspectors to find, but on the Iraqis to disclose.

The onus on the Security Council should be "prove that Iraq has complied, and guarantee there are no WMD's, or we go in. And prove it by this Friday."

[arasina]

Blix is an utterly corrupt bureaucrat chosen by the French over the strong objections of the US. For obvious reasons.

I think Blix was bribed, paid off. I wish there was a way to check his current finances.

[Cuttnhorse]

BTT

[friendly]

Blix is for kids. Silly rabbit!