Wellstone's Remarks - Wellstone declined

Wellstone's Remarks - Wellstone declined to support action against Iraq, absent complete approval from the UN.

I love Lileks' screed on the subject.

Here's the best part:

The opponents of military force always make the best argument for Saddam’s removal. They spend a great deal of time detailing how he has lied and cheated and killed and stalled and gassed and oppressed, and hence should be given an additional last chance to prove he’s worthy of the last chance we’ll give him in November. It’s not surprising coming from Wellstone; he belongs to the UN party. As I’ve noted elsewhere, there are two parties nowadays: the US party, and the UN party. The former includes Republicans and Democrats who have an inordinate, romantic, and almost quaint attachment to the Constitution and the notion of national sovereignty. The latter regard nation-states as subsets of a global construct that values unanimous impotence over individual effort, and values procedure over results. The US party calls in mortar fire on the enemy positions. The UN party stands up, climbs over the lip of the trench, and recites Robert’s Rules of Order as it approaches the machine-gun positions. Yea, though I walk through the shadow of death I shall fear no evil, for evil is specifically prohibited under Article 4, subclause B.

And with all of Wellstone's (and the left's) cringing before the opinion of the "Arab Street", and the mortal danger we face by "going it alone", this part is hilarious

Wellstone apparently believes that Saddam would use a “go-it-alone” invasion to inspire France, Canada, the Solomon Islands and Belarus to launch simultaneous attacks against us. What forces would he unite? Do we fear the mighty Egyptian Army swimming to Florida? If he’s talking about the terrorists, then he seems to believe that an invasion of Iraq would topple those fence-sitters who hated America, hated Jews, hated the pig-monkey mongrel West with its beer-and-Britney sinfulness. It’s bad enough that the West exisst at all, but toppling a secularist whack-job who co-opts the Muslim cause for his own clan’s advancement - that’s the last straw. And the infidels won, too - all the more reason to rise up and demand that they kill us, too!

By the way - isn't it amazing what a dove Wellstone was not, during the Clinton administration?

Posted by Mitch at October 4, 2002 06:43 AM