Sunday, January 04, 2004

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Mark Steyn:

For example, last year I thought the Americans won an amazing military victory in Iraq; the European media, by contrast, thought the Yanks were bogged down in a bloody Vietnam-style quagmire from which there was no escape save ignominious retreat.

I reckon Colonel Muammar Gaddafi abandoned his WMD programme because he didn't want to wind up like Saddam; the BBC, Reuters and Co figure it is because he was terrified Jacques Chirac might fly in for a state visit and hit on his wife while he was distracted by Dominique de Villepin reciting highlights from his recent volume of poetry.

I predict that this trend will continue throughout 2004. In November, after Howard Dean, the Democrats' Mister Angry, gets trounced in the Presidential election, the BBC's Washington correspondent will declare that the Bush landslide represents a devastating setback for the Administration and is said to have left the President "badly shaken". For those of us in the real world, the Bush victory will be seen as a victory for Bush.


Ha. How the National Post let this guy go is beyond me.

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