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Posted on 03/27/2003 11:37:02 AM PST by kattracks
Poor Sen. Max Baucus. To trick Montanans into re-electing him he did everything possible to fudge his identity as a Democrat and all but licked President Bush's cowboy boots. Now his appeasement activist of a wife is causing him problems.
The senator's wife, Wanda, a painter and anthropologist, has gone so far as to desecrate the American flag by replacing the stars with doves on an appeasement poster prominently displayed at their home in snooty Georgetown.
"We are way out of line" and have no right to fight Saddam Hussein, Mrs. B told the Washington Post.
"Baghdad is where the beginning of civilization occurred, literally where the wheel was invented, where the very first city was built, where writing began, and it has a very deep and profoundly beautiful history, which we should never take lightly, no matter who the existing president is," she rambled.
Saddam 'Cares About'
the Citizens He MassacresThere is no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, she claimed. Oh, and here's what she says about Iraq's genocidal dictator:
"I think he is very proud of the history of his country. I think it's we Americans who don't know the facts about what anthropologists call 'the cradle of civilization.' When we watch the bombing on television, we really don't seem to understand or appreciate that some of these places are sacred. ... I disagree with those who say that Saddam Hussein doesn't think about this. He cares about these places and their people."
Indeed? Perhaps the senator's wife should heed a fellow appeasement activist, the Rev. Kenneth Joseph, a would-be "human shield" who changed his mind after Iraqi citizens told him they "would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists.
"Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head," Joseph told Arnaud de Borchgrave.
Mrs. Baucus, not surprisingly, used to teach at Harvard and "regularly visits" France.
The Post's Lloyd Grove wrote, "We wondered if Baucus is talking one way in the Senate, where he has voted to support Bush's anti-Hussein politics, and another way at home."
A Baucus mouthpiece insisted the senator "believes strongly that Saddam Hussein and his regime must be removed from power."
"I've been very proud of her that she has her own view about things," the senator said. "We just agree to disagree. Like a lot of families, we have some vigorous discussions. This is Topic A for a lot of families. There are lots of questions raised about it."
We hate to tell you this, Senator, but Montana's major newspaper, the Billings Gazette, today rehashed the Post's report, so no doubt your constituents will raise "lots of questions" for you.
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And then they put diapers around their heads and it's been all downhill ever since. Islam destroys all that it comes into contact with.
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I wonder what Mrs. Kerry thinks about the war ... I'd just love to hear her opinion!!
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