Mark Steyn: The world according to Donald Rumsfeld

National Post ^ | March 18 2003 | Mark Steyn

[lawgirl]

Thanks for the ping. Steyn hits it right as usual.

[Dark Wing]

ping

[Damocles]

This one out Steyns Steyn. The man is pure genious!

[rudypoot]

"A few days after September 11th, he observed, "If you're going to cock it, you throw it." For the last year, we have had the world's longest cock. Let's throw."

Only Steyn...

[mrustow]

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Eastern... But my wife was up to after 4 a.m.

[headsonpikes]

"...elderly schoolgirl columnist Maureen Dowd..."

Ha ha

[MeekOneGOP]

See ? Steyn said we'd be in war before he published another article. I told you he would likely get another article or two published before we bombed Iraq !

[kabar]

Rumsfeld was Bush's best cabinet pick, by far. He's tough, intelligent, forthright, and a leader. Hell, I think he would make a great President. The old Princeton wrestler can grapple with the best of them.

[over3Owithabrain]

Andrew Sullivan could have written that last line :)

[aBootes]

My personal favorite:

There are no hard and fast rules, but when Baroness Amos, Britain's Minister for Africa, is chasing M. de Villepin around the dark continent because Guinea's presidential witchdoctor is advising against war (really), it's hard not to feel that, even by diplomatic standards, the whole thing has become too unmoored from reality.

[MeekOneGOP]

ROFL !

That's Rumsfeld's function -- to take the polite fictions and drag them back to the real world. During the Afghan campaign, CNN's Larry King asked him, "Is it very important that the coalition hold?" The correct answer -- the Powell-Blair-Gore-Annan answer -- is, of course, "Yes." But Rummy decided to give the truthful answer: "No." He went on to explain why: "The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is." Such a man cannot be happy at the sight of the Guinean tail wagging the French rectum of the British hind quarters of the American dog.

[holdmuhbeer]

For the last year, we have had the world's longest cock

absolutely ROFLMAO

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not gonna say a word ...

Ditto.

[HanneyBean]

Once again, I bow to a master columnist - the likes of which I have yet to find.
Steyn mega-BUMP!

[wardaddy]

Thinking women (and men) love Rumsfeld. Women find him decisive, witty, and sexy for a 70-something fellow.

I think he is an ideal for how many wish their husbands were or will turn out to be ...someday. My darling wife adores Rummy and she's half his age.

There's a father figure thing happening there too ...in a nice way.

Men like him because he's a real hombre and gives hope to all of us that virility can have legs.

He will be remembered by history fondly.

Regards!

[metesky]

So you might as well give 'em the real thing and have a laugh, rather than sending Colin off to drone bromides about "my good friend Dominique" as the duplicitous French aristo stitches him up one more time.

Skewers de Villipen nicely.

Thanks much, Pokey78.

[Shermy]

"The New York Times' elderly schoolgirl columnist Maureen Dowd"

[dighton]

The New York Times' elderly schoolgirl columnist Maureen Dowd

Bull's-eye.

[Huck]

Once again, I bow to a master columnist - the likes of which I have yet to find.

If you ask me you have to go back to Mencken. This guy is TOP DRAWER. I have been following his stuff regularly.