Too bad that Andrew Coyne's website is no longer current because non-subsribers to the National Post missed a gem today.
Of all the many responses from around the world to Sunday’s historic election in Iraq, the one that stood out for sheer jaw-dropping effronterie was that offered by — who else? — the French. The election, a spokesman for the French President said, was “a great success for the international community.”
... the international community that opposed the war — not the majority of the European Union, or the majority of the OECD, or the majority of the G7, all of whom supported the war, but Saddam’s clients on the Security Council, who were content to pass resolution after meaningless resolution demanding Saddam comply with elementary norms of civilized behaviour, but never to enforce them; who supplied him with the technology with which to further his nuclear ambitions (take a bow, France!), or the missiles with which to threaten his neighbours (come on down, Russia!), or the chemical agents used to gas the Kurds (hey, Germany, I thought you were out of that business!). It’s the international community represented by the United Nations, whose agents oversaw and in some cases participated in, the massive embezzlement scheme known as the “oil-for-food program,” colluding with Saddam’s regime to siphon billions of dollars in oil revenues — money that was supposed to be used to feed the Iraqi people — into their own pockets, and Saddam’s. And it’s the international community that, to our everlasting shame, has come to include Canada.
