Mark Steyn: The British wrest defeat from the jaws of victory

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 06/08/03 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

[Tax-chick]

Yippee! Another Mark Steyn.

Interesting slip(?) here: I was in favour of whacking Saddam because the price of leaving him non-whacked was too high for America's broader interests.

Does Mark really think of himself as an American? He'd be welcome to move into my swell new spare room in NC while he sorts out his citizenship ...

[MEG33]

Commonsense from Steyn. They are having a feeding frenzy in Britain .

[TomB]

Allright, that's it, I've had it!

Tomorrow I'm flying over to Iraq with whatever WMDs I can dig up around here and I'll toss them down and old well and point the boys in the right direction.

Let's see, I can spare a few cans of Sarin, a half a bottle of Anthrax (don't ask), and a few pictures of Maureen Down (REALLY don't ask). That should be enough for starters.

Anybody else spare some WMDs?

[Prodigal Son]

Good stuff from Steyn.

[WarrenC]

But on this issue he was right, and there's nothing to be gained for British Conservatism in subscribing to theories of deliberate deceit that in America are exclusively the province of paranoid cranks.

Some of those paranoid cranks have chimed in on Free Republic.

[TomB]

Does Mark really think of himself as an American? He'd be welcome to move into my swell new spare room in NC while he sorts out his citizenship ...

He lives in New Hampshire.

[expatpat]

He already lives in the US -- in northern New England, I believe.

[Tax-chick]

I thought he was Canadian. Was I drunk when I read that? :-)

[Travis McGee]

In Kirkuk the other day, they found another mass grave, this time with the bodies of 200 children who had been buried alive.

Yawn. Doesn't count.

Wake me if they find a toxic warhead among the teeny skulls.

[MEG33]

I've noticed.

[MEG33]

He was born in Canada.

[kesg]

Sir Max, the liberator of Port Stanley, has somehow morphed for this war into Belgrano bore Tam Dalyell: his thesis is that Blair and his American masters lied to the world about Saddam's arsenal in order to justify an invasion that would prove no such arsenal existed and that they were a bunch of liars.

An excellent point, which only further underscores how ridiculous this entire whacky left tin-foil mad hat conspiracy theory is.

[Slings and Arrows]

Anybody else spare some WMDs?

I could donate some Barbra Streisand CDs.

[Allan]

bump

[Billthedrill]

You know, this is one of those Steyn columns where I highlight a great sentence to comment on it, and then along comes a better one, and then a better...BTT.

And yeah, Travis...that one took this out of the "funny" category.

[eeman]

It is hard to believe that Great Britain once ruled an empire. Of course it is hard to believe that this country had the courage and the tenacity to fight two powerful foes in the 1940's and then elect Clinton less than 50 years later

[Tax-chick]

He was born in Canada.

I see. I was born in California. Sometimes bad things happen to good people ...

[forsnax5]

... the axis of weasels (France, Germany, Russia) and its short-pants league (Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada) ...

LOL!

Steyn is the king of quips!