Bush playing his cards right in Iraq

Sun Times ^ | July 27, 2003 | MARK STEYN

[goldstategop]

Mark Steyn bump! I marvel how the Democrats come across as mad dogs snarling and foaming the mouth. They're just turning every one to the right of Arianna Huffington and Ralph Nader OFF. I hope they keep it up.

[MEG33]

Mark Steyn Bump!

[tsmith130]

....he's gonna be a bit twitchy if Ahmed's trip to the 7-Eleven seems to be taking a little too long.

Too funny....I love this guy!!!

[sine_nomine]

Outstanding - just what we expect from Mark.

[snippy_about_it]

One anti-Bush Democrat at a protest the other day carried a sign reading ''FRANCE WAS RIGHT!'' That's not a winning slogan, even in Vermont.

What happened this week is a foretaste of what the party can expect in the next 15 months: Reality will keep intruding, and if the Dems keep moving the goalposts ever more frantically, pretty soon they'll be campaigning from Planet Zongo. This week, Tom Daschle insisted that Odai and Qusai were all very well, but where was the Big Guy? Why hadn't that slacker Bush caught him yet?

Good read demlosers, thanks for posting it.

Ping to you SAM.

[facedown]

Bump; ping.

[MEG33]

The "kids" called bums by Rangel and Juan Williams.The kids according to Steyn..mass murdering,torturng,psychopathic killers.I like Steyn's better!

[goldstategop]

I guess that Dimloser got ticked off at the sight of BellyGirl so he had to shut her up.

[HapHaszard]

Bump

[mathluv]

bump for later

[snippy_about_it]

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[goldstategop]

You know that Free Republic picture of Belly Girl with her FRANCE: YOU SHUT THE HELL UP! WE'LL SAVE CIVILIZATION sign? hehehe.

[Rocko]

On the other hand, will the Niger uranium story be proved true? Quite possibly, but who cares? Will Saddam be tracked down as his sons were? Very possibly.

And the Democrats won't care.

[WL-law]

The BBC, CBC and most of the European media have constructed an alternative universe and are content to frolic on its wilder shores. Time stands still in this world: Even though the confidently predicted civilian death tolls and humanitarian catastrophes never arrive, nobody minds. There's no reason why reality should ever intrude.

An eloquent piece of writing, he captures it precisely.

[jocon307]

Can you post it? She's soooo cool. I have it, took it from here, but for whatever reason (my incompetence) I can't copy it back here!

[Amelia]

Bill Clinton got it right. Democrats need to move on. If they're still droning on about Niger on the day Rummy's passing out souvenir vials of Saddam's DNA, they'll be heading for oblivion. Clinton's approach is all the more lethal because it doesn't seem so: You can't beat Bush on the war, so you neutralize his advantage on the issue by taking it out of contention. You'll appear sympathetic, generous, bipartisan, and mature; the war will be bored off the front pages; and you can fight the election on more favorable terrain on which the public's never really cared for Bush. Whether or not the Clinton tack would work, the Dean-Chomsky-BBC-French strategy never will. When the last Baghdad supporter of Odai and Qusai sounds like Howard Dean's running mate, you know you're off the map.

I think Steyn is correct here, but I wish he wouldn't let them in on the secret! ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Oh, okay, not enough coffee to catch on so early. :)

[SAMWolf]

One anti-Bush Democrat at a protest the other day carried a sign reading ''FRANCE WAS RIGHT!'' That's not a winning slogan, even in Vermont.

LOL! I love it.

[Defend the Second]

The original FRANCE! SHUT THE HELL UP poster had the F-bomb in place of "HELL". Otherwise, identical. More vulgar, and more effective in my opinion. And more in line with my feelings toward France. I saw the F-bomb version of the poster on a web site where several graphic artists had taken original WWII posters and updated the words to reflect the war on terror. I laughed for five minutes. Unfortunately I lost the link. Anybody else see it? Anybody remember?