THIS time last week I was up to my armpits in European weasels prancing down the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
On Saturday a subspecies was out in force in New York, prancing around Columbus Circle and the East Side: the American weasel.
Of course anti-war protests are as much a fabric of this country’s freedom as the Constitution itself.
British Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer, a solid supporter of the United States, realizes this. “I hope Saddam Hussein saw that demonstration of democracy,” he said.
Saddam watched all right, but the message he got was altogether different.
This claque of peaceniks should look before they bleat and realize what signals they’re sending to America’s enemies and its so-called “allies.” Saddam does not see the weasels practicing democracy. He sees the protests as proof of the weakness of America’s leaders.
So does National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
As she said on “Meet the Press” yesterday: “[Iraq] is a country that cuts the tongues out of people who dissent.”
The French and Germans do not see these demonstrations as a legitimate alternative voice.
They see it as support for their egomaniacal lust to again lead an old Europe.
Listen to the words of Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), a man with real credentials as a hero: “[France and Germany] remind me of an aging actress who tries to dine out on her looks but no longer has the face for it.”
Meanwhile, more weasels are cloned and recloned as Saddam continues his endless con game of cheat and deceit.
For crying out loud, we are on high alert against terror.
The United Nations is doing a great carbon copy of the doomed League of Nations. The last time that happened, Hitler polished his jackboots before nearly polishing off Europe.
The weasels prance and they want us to dance to Saddam Hussein’s tune of terror.
The liberal left has a sad tradition of being on the wrong side of history.