THE IDIOTARIAN PARTY

It's official: the top two Democrats have publicly converted to idiotarianism (should I capitalize that?). Here's the story, containing this quote from Sen. Minority Leader Tom "Puff" Daschle:

"The situation has put us in a more isolated position than I ever anticipated," Daschle said, adding there is "virtual unanimity" among Democrats that Bush has failed in his diplomatic dealings. He said Democrats feel the administration is "rushing to war without adequate concern for the ramifications of doing so unilaterally or with a very small coalition of nations."

Great God a-mighty--that "rush to war" crap is getting tired, isn't it. An 18-month delay in which the US has bent itself into a pretzel to satisfy every possible concern of just about all other countries, involved or not, does not constitute a rush to war. And that 18-month delay followed about 10 years of dorking around with Saddam, the UN, inspections and all that. The rush to war has taken so long that Iraq was able to first get permission to sell oil again, then use some of that money to buy off former weapons inspector Scott Ritter and turn him from a hawk into a Saddam-kissing dove. Kids who started school in the first grade when this rush to war began are literally on the cusp of graduation, their entire education having taken place during this so-called rush to war. I'[ve personally had five full-time jobs during this dozen-year rush to war, including a full four-year enlistment in the US Air Force--which ended five years ago! Rush to war, my arse. I've seen swifter rushes on buffet night at the local rest home.

And then there's this gem:

The top two party leaders now are escalating their criticism of Bush, because they think war is imminent and because Russia, Germany and France seem more opposed to it, according to several Democratic senators.

So, let me get this straight. The leaders of the Democrat Party, ostensibly an American political institution, are taking their cues from the French, Germans and Russians as opposed to, say, the president of their own country. It certainly explains a lot. But let's have ourselves a quick primer on the three nations the Dems are following.

Russia--70 years of Communist rule have proven tough to shake off, currently has a former KGB man in charge, and wants to save Saddam because Saddam owes Russia about $8 billion. At least, that's the public reason Putin wants to save Saddam.

France--failed to enforce the Versailles Treaty which led directly to World War II, surrendered to Hitler once his tanks got about six inches inside French terriroty, built Iraq's nuke program from the ground up in the late 1970s, promised to maintain an engineering presence there to disquise its clandestine weapons use from the IAEA, promised to rebuild it after the Israelis destroyed it in 1981, and has apparently continued arming Iraq in spite of numerous bans as recently as January 2003.

Germany--authors of The Communist Manifesto were born there, Germany created the Russian Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 in a futile effort to win World War I, then gave rise to Hitler's toxins and went along with them to the tune of slaughtering several million Jews. Germany also let the 1972 Munich terrorists go scott free in a faked hijacking.

And the Democrats are following these people? I wish there was an election today, just so I could vote against them.