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There they go again. Not content with being wrong about Iraq for over 20 years, the weasels have started around the Mulberry bush for another round of making a monkey out the UN. If we let them succeed the losers will once again be the people of Iraq and the taxpayers of the United States.

Only in politics can someone be as wrong as the weasels, lose as often as the weasels, and yet still think they are the ones who will decide an issue. Not just any issue, mind you, but the very issue on which they were humiliated. France, Germany and Russia—the Axis of Weasels—have been proven to be not just wrong, but stupendously wrong on Iraq. Yet here they come, mounting a display of self-importance only diplomats and peacocks can manage, trying to dictate terms on the rebuilding of Iraq even before the fighting has stopped.

We could have expected this from France, which has been weasel-like since the days of De Gaulle. Russia, to, can be counted on to question world affairs just to appear relevant in the post-Cold War world. (Do not mention their little problem in Chechnya, though!) Germany, however, is new to the society of obstructionists. What they all have in common, though, is that for decades they armed Saddam Hussein. Given their past with totalitarian regimes, Germany seems like an unlikely candidate to support foreign totalitarians...unless they have regressed. We will have to watch Germany closely in the next few years to see if the national socialists have made a comeback.

It was bad enough when these countries supported Saddam before the first Persian Gulf War. Claiming that "everyone else was doing it" is not a good excuse. France, Germany and Russia (along with China) were the primary arms suppliers to Saddam Hussein. Without their help, Saddam never could have started the war with Iran or rebuilt his army after that war ended in 1988. Even the limited aid the United States provided Iraq looks questionable in retrospect. Iraq's work in the bioweapons field is a good reason why we need to rethink the policy of supplying any country that asks with medical research samples of deadly bacteria, viruses and even antidotes. Groups like the International Red Cross can always provide legitimate medical aid.

Now that our task is rebuilding Iraq we must do our best to demonstrate that we are there to stay, and there to correct past mistakes. Western countries, paralyzed by the prospect of "instability"—a euphemism for an Islamic takeover—we failed to put pressure on Saddam when he was weakened by the Iran-Iraq war. A military coup in the late 1980s could have saved the region a lot of trouble. The weasels, however, did not seem to learn from their mistakes. Even after the first Gulf War, these countries continued to support the regime of Saddam Hussein with weapons, loans and technology. That is why they chose to do everything in their power to prevent the downfall of Saddam Hussein. Now the same countries that prolonged the agony of Iraq seem to think they deserve a role in rebuilding Iraq.

I doubt that makes sense to anyone except the weasels—and their useful fools. Even as we speak, the "anti-war" crowd is retooling their message to oppose the "occupation" of Iraq. These people seem determined to ignore reality and press on with their anti-American stances. Despite the fact that the United States sent hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to Iraq during the 1990s they try to claim that it was the United States who caused the hardships for ordinary Iraqis and not Saddam's ruthless regime. Now, despite hundreds of millions that will be spent on rebuilding Iraq, these people will try to claim that America and her allies are there to "occupy" Iraq. What drives these people? They are lying socialist weasels; their anti-American stance is all the reason they need.

It seems necessary to remind people that socialim is the unifying theme among the countries that oppose the United States and her allies. Socialism is behind the groups of people marching in the street in opposition to the liberation of Iraq. From your garden variety Marxists looking for a 21st Century raison d'être to the Chomskyites trying to usurp the libertarian label to the good old European national socialists in France and Germany the socialist of the world are trying once again to unite.

Whatever their goals, it is up to the Americans and their freedom loving allies to stop them.

All around the Mulberry bush
The Americans chased the weasels
The Americans decided it was time to stop
Pop! went the weasels

There is only one role that befits the weasels. Let them provide and pay for humanitarian aid to Iraq. That way they can start to repay the Iraqi people for all the death, damage and destruction they enabled.

...the weasels have started around the Mulberry bush for another round of making a monkey out the UN.

What they all have in common, though, is that for decades they armed Saddam Hussein.

Now that our task is rebuilding Iraq we must do our best to demonstrate that we are there to stay, and there to correct past mistakes.

They are lying socialist weasels; their anti-American stance is all the reason they need.