Category: World

Marduk ‘s mention of the following makes me extremely angry and ashamed of Canada. More like speechless with rage.

The Western oil company with the closest ties to the late Saddam is
France’s TotalFinaElf. That’s not the curious fact, that’s just
business as usual in the Fifth Republic. This is the curious fact: As
Diane wrote in February and again last week, “Total’s biggest
shareholder is Montreal’s Paul Desmarais, whose youngest son is
married to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s daughter.”
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight: TotalFinaElf’s largest
shareholder is a subsidiary of Montreal’s Power Corp, whose co-chief
executive is Jean Chrétien’s son-in-law, Andre Desmarais.

Update: The Mark Steyn article is here. The article by Diane Francis he references is here.

As usual, James Lileks sums it up perfectly.

Because we can’t solve all the world’s problems at once, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to solve some. Yesterday Afghanistan, today Iraq, whither tomorrow?

Before:

After:

I watched this live on the CBS Webcast this morning. A little bit of history. I wonder what the Information Minister will have to say about this, given that the statue is right in front of the Palestine Hotel, where the journalists have been since the start of the war, and from where he claimed yesterday that the Americans were routed.

An interesting metaphor somewhere here for the “Iraqis should depose Saddam on their own” crowd. The people in the square were whaling away at the plinth and the statue, but it was simply too solid. So the Americans moved up their crane-on-a-Bradly (forgive my ignorance of military hardware), and gave them a helping hand.

Later I saw a bunch of Iraqis hauling Saddam’s head down the street.

Heh.