He sets his sights on the Tranzi demand that Saddam be given an International Trial:
Well, it's January, December's come and gone, so let's add up the final score:Coalition of the Willing: Saddam captured, Gadhafi neutered.
The ''International Community'': Milosevic elected to Parliament in Belgrade.
Yes, indeed. On the last weekend of the year, Slobo won a seat in Serbia's legislature, as did his fellow "alleged'' (as Wes Clark would say) war criminal Vojislav Seselj, and Seselj's extreme nationalist Serbian Radical Party won more seats than anybody else.
Hmm. Now how did THAT happen?
One reason why Slobo is popular again in Serbia is precisely because of the ''international'' trial. In 2000, when the strongman of the Balkans was swept from power, he was a discredited figure, a European pariah reviled as a murderous butcher. After two years of legal hair-splitting at the Hague, he's all but fully rehabilitated. True, Slobo, conducting his own defense, has been a shameless showboater, but not half as shameless as the absurd prosecutor Carla del Ponte. It's received wisdom among battered Serb democrats that every clumsy indictment of Ponte's drove Slobo's poll numbers higher.
From the looks of it, the Transnationalists who want all the nations to turn their authority over to the United Nations consider this a feature and not a bug:
President Bush understands that the transnational establishment's interest in this case is not to pass judgment on Saddam but, by reasserting its authority, to pass judgment on America -- on its illegitimate war, illegal occupation, barbaric justice system, etc.
The best damn quote:
Up to the moment Saddam popped out of the spider-hole, the international jet set's line was that deplorable as Saddam's rule might be -- gassing Kurds, feeding folks feet-first into industrial shredders, etc. -- it was strictly an internal matter for the Iraqi people. The minute the old boy was in U.S. custody, the international jet set's revised position was that gassing Kurds, feeding folks into industrial shredders and so forth were crimes against the whole world and certainly not a matter for the Iraqi people. Instead, we need a (drumroll, please) United Nations-mandated international tribunal.This is what the Zionist neocons would call chutzpah.
I'd call it being damned two-faced hypocrites.
I've quoted excerpts out of order. Naturally, read the whole thing and savor the goodness.
Hattip Instapundit.
Posted by ptah at January 5, 2004 05:10 AM