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Mark Steyn: The British wrest defeat from the jaws of victory
The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^
| 06/08/03
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 06/07/2003 6:31:49 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
One minute Steyn's writing makes me laugh, the next I am crying ... but ALWAYS, Steyn makes me think, and I like that.
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posted on
06/07/2003 7:15:01 PM PDT
by
patricia
To: TomB
Call amazon.com. I'm sure they could spare a few copies of Hillary's book.
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posted on
06/07/2003 7:22:27 PM PDT
by
JusPasenThru
(We're through being cool (you can say that again, Dad))
To: Pokey78
I'm pretty disgusted with Ian Duncan Smith. I thought the reason he was't considered "charismatic" was the reason the Torys had not won. Actually, it's because the guy is an immoral boob. He KNOWS there were WMDs, and for him to jump on the bandwagon bashing Blair for political purposes, is just disgraceful. A man without principles is a man without principles whether he's charismatic or not.
To: JusPasenThru
Mark is a Canadian, living in New England, writing for US, British, and Canadian newspapers.
To: Pokey78
Hot diggity dog! I really love the way Mark Steyn expresses himself via the written word!
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posted on
06/07/2003 7:36:34 PM PDT
by
arasina
(Thank God the White House now has plenty of CLEAN laundry!)
To: Pokey78
"It would obviously be easier to wait and pick the evidence of WMD out of the rubble of Birmingham"Yes. Or Chicago, Los Angeles, or Washington.
The invasion of Iraq was obviously wise and in the best interest of Britain and America and their allies. Those who criticize Bush and Blair know this (unless they are stupid).
Once again, Mark hits it out of the ballpark.
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posted on
06/07/2003 8:17:56 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Vote Democrat! Vote for national--and personal--suicide! It's like being a suicide bomber!)
To: Pokey78
WOOHOO!!!
Mark Steyn is now my journalistic hero! (OK, I admit that he already was, but this is one of his best ever.)
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posted on
06/07/2003 8:21:44 PM PDT
by
SunStar
(Democrats piss me off!)
To: Pokey78
Bumpola!
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posted on
06/07/2003 8:27:30 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: Pokey78
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. He makes me so jealous sometimes - how does he come up with lines like this? So simple, so succinct, so good.
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posted on
06/07/2003 8:29:18 PM PDT
by
garbanzo
(Free people will set the course of history)
To: Pokey78
Steyn hits another one out of the ballpark. He's been on quite a roll since he returned from the Mideast, hasn't he?
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posted on
06/07/2003 8:34:07 PM PDT
by
Amelia
To: Pokey78
I don't care if weapons are not found, our solders banished an EVIL regime to hell.
To: Pokey78
Steyn bump!
To: McGavin999
And he is supposed to be the successor to Lady Thatcher?? PUHlease !!!
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That's what counts: capability, not inventory. It would obviously be easier to wait and pick the evidence of WMD out of the rubble of Birmingham, but for the Americans it is capability that's the determining criterion. Great line!
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posted on
06/07/2003 10:15:31 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Where is Saddam? and his Weapons of Mass Destruction?)
To: Pokey78
Man, this article is just chocked full of one-liners, each of which could carry a whole article by itself. How does he come up with this stuff at this frequency? This is a masterpiece of satire and hyperbole.
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posted on
06/07/2003 10:32:56 PM PDT
by
MCH
To: baseballmom
"And he is supposed to be the successor to Lady Thatcher?? PUHlease !!!" Here's the Iron Lady had to say on the subject recently.
" For years many governments played down the threats of Islamic revolution, turned a blind eye to international terrorism, and accepted the development of weapons of mass destruction. Indeed,some politicians were happy to go further, collaborating with the self-proclaimed enemies of the West for their own short-term gain - but enough about the French." Margaret Thatcher.
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posted on
06/07/2003 10:49:28 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Pokey78
Some of those besmirching British victory in a noble cause should be ashamed of themselves
How true, but the BBC knows no shame.
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posted on
06/07/2003 11:15:48 PM PDT
by
LiberationIT
(Listen to the BBC. Rarely correct, but never in doubt.)
To: Billthedrill
Steyn is the Michael Jordan of columnists. He continues to amaze with his laser wit.
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posted on
06/07/2003 11:16:19 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: MEG33; Tax-chick; JohnHuang2; MeeknMing; shaggy eel; Byron_the_Aussie
<< He was born in Canada. >>
Yair.
Poor bastard.
But then I was born in New Zealand and have recovered from that pretty darn well.
And some of my very favorite other typical Americans: Bob Hope; [England -- "Left the moment they told me I couldn't be king!"] Henry Kissinger [Germany] and; John and Rosie Derbyshire; [England and China] Miguel Estrada; [Honduras] Karen Yogurtcugil; [Iran] Asim Al Tamimi [Iraq] -- and Victor Boyadzhyan; [Armenia] were born some place else, too -- and are doing US as fabulous proud!
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posted on
06/07/2003 11:53:43 PM PDT
by
Brian Allen
( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
To: Travis McGee; Billthedrill; Pokey78; MEG33; Tax-chick; JohnHuang2; MeeknMing; shaggy eel; ...
<< Steyn is the Michael Jordan of columnists. >>
What a brilliant analogy.
What a compliment.
What economy.
What Truth.
Hear! Hear!
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posted on
06/07/2003 11:57:23 PM PDT
by
Brian Allen
( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
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