Monday
(0)Colleagues of mine of Guardianista persusations are muttering about how that evil, gun-toting Texan retard in the White House has "probably busted the EU, the UN, and even NATO". Much gnashing of transnational progressive teeth today.
As Perry might put it - excellent!
"probably busted the EU, the UN, and even NATO".
One can dream, right?
Posted by dave at March 17, 2003 04:39 PM
I finished reading comments at a very Democratic blog. It is amazing at how angry and bitter they are. I never stop being amazed at the visceral hatred they have for Bush that gets in the way of rational discourse. Their zeal is scary.
Posted by Milan at March 17, 2003 05:01 PM
Just heard that people are threatening to charge Blair with war crimes. In the ICC I guess? Is that plausible? Has the UK subjected itself to the ICC? That might be another thing which bites the dust.
Posted by brian at March 17, 2003 05:13 PM
Milan, You want scary zeal? Go to bbc.co.uk/news and click on Have Your Say, then Should The UN Route Have Been Abandoned?. Even more foam would have been pouring out of their mouths, but they're trying to hold their lips together to form the perfect sneer.
Posted by Liberty Belle at March 17, 2003 05:28 PM
"Just heard that people are threatening to charge Blair with war crimes. "
I heard that, too. It was just some loopy activist, I think. I looked, but can't find the reference.
Wouldn't it be delicious if the first major case brought before the ICC was exactly the sort of abuse of the Western powers the US had in mind when it said nay?
Posted by S. Weasel at March 17, 2003 05:35 PM
Hi Liberty Belle, I went and looked. Sounds like the same sentiments. I was reading the comments on the Daily Kos which is a good place to go for liberal (and this is a euphamism) wailing and flailing.
Posted by Milan at March 17, 2003 05:48 PM
EXCELLENT. I have to say I was initially against getting the UN involved at all, but now it looks like it may be one more terrorist-infested tyrant-sympathising swamp to be drained. If things work out that way, then EXCELLENT!
Alas, I think that is wishful thinking. Institutional survival skills will kick in and they'll be all over Iraq the minute the combat stops, and claiming credit.
Now, could the ICC commit hari-kari by indicting Blair? Gosh, we can only hope.
Posted by Kevin at March 17, 2003 06:32 PM
Wow, that's one magic bullet.
Of course, the idea that Bush did it is stupid. France did it through self-immolation. The new line of criticism coming from the Democrats is that Bush's diplomacy failed. Has anyone not noticed the game France has been playing? THEY are the ones who have caused the damage to international diplomacy. It's not anything the Bushies have done. The Bush admin has tried bending over backwards to make the U.N. relevant.
Posted by Russ Goble at March 17, 2003 06:49 PM
For this war season's best sneers, we can do no better than look across the Channel to the French haute sneering collections. The Dominique (yes, yes, sweetie darlings, we all thought Dominique is a girl's name, but 'e is jus' a beeg girl's blouse) Villepin collection is serviceable, but not dramatic enough to tempt the average Guardianista in the High Street to spend a public sector salary on. For that French je ne sais quoi we have to look to the Maison Chirac and the Quai D'Orsay Collection, which combines haute sneers with pretty little Gallic shrugs mix 'n' matched with an attractive range of raised eyebrows which should appeal to your outraged BBC 'Have Your Say' correspondent. A word of warning: don't be in too much of a hurry to buy the latest Chirac, as we predict it will be going at a discount by tomorrow. Maybe falling down to a Guinea. Excellent!
Posted by Liberty Belle at March 17, 2003 07:11 PM
If that gaggle of overstuffed robes at the ICC tries to even look crosseyed at Tony Blair, I will be at the gates of the White House demanding a preemptive strike against the evil institution. OTOH, if they want to indict him for the things he's done to the UK domestically, I'm afraid I'll have to demur...
Posted by Jeffersonian at March 17, 2003 09:47 PM
Since when were the Guardianistas such big fans of NATO that they now deplore the hit it took ?
Posted by Jacob at March 17, 2003 10:12 PM
As Neil Kinnock used to say on Spitting Image: Lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely - in all manner of loveliness!
Posted by Patrick W at March 18, 2003 07:22 AM
I blogged a piece on this development over on Winds of Change:
http://windsofchange.net/archives/003210.html
Posted by Trent Telenko at March 18, 2003 11:52 AM
Just watched the evening TV news in France and there was nothing about the speech Tony Blair gave, but Robin Cook was featured large - giving his speech, getting congratulations from fellow MPs (among them communist appeasenik Jeremy Corbyn and various other beardies I didn't recognise), getting a triumphant round of applause from the lefties and driving dramatically away in his official car, as was a downtown Baghdad solidarity style demonstration for Saddam. No speech by the British prime minister, unless I blinked. Jacques Chirac gave an official address - meaning, from his desk with the French and EU flags behind him - which featured a variety of eyebrow elevations. As his neck is now beaking around inside his shirt collar like a lonely goose, I would say this man has lost a little weight over the last few days. He can't quite believe he's blown it. The UN is dead in the water. The EU doesn't look familiar any more ... You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
Posted by Liberty Belle at March 18, 2003 08:18 PM
