Bush seeks Annan ass to implant lips.
This speech and appearance speech will only provide comfort to America's enemies...little more than an pre-election sop to the bleeding hearts who would hand our soverignity over to the likes of the EU weasels.
The WaPo bleats:
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, in an unusually impassioned and sharp condemnation of U.S. policy, said "unilateralism" was an assault on the "collective action" envisioned by the late president Franklin D. Roosevelt and the other U.N. founders.
"This logic represents a fundamental challenge to the principles on which, however imperfectly, world peace and stability have rested for the last 58 years," the secretary general said.
As usual, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle expresses regret and disappointment:
Bullshit
The reason the world has been relatively at peace for the past 58 years is that the US defeated Germany and Japan, rebuilt Europe and stood between Soviet expansionsim and the free world.
That the world has not been engulfed in flames AGAIN isn't the product of feckless French "diplomacy", Donk appeasement or UN blathering and ass-kissing of tin-pot dictators. It is a direct result of the US building the strongest military and maintaining our stance that we are the world's policemen, like it or not. We make the rules because we bear the costs in blood and treasure.
The colonial flag that preceded Betsy Ross' Old Glory bore the image of a coiled snake and the words "Don't Tread on Me." Those who trod on us in in the past and on 9/11 have discovered that those words apply with a vengeance.
Fucking A.
"I observed on one of the drums belonging to the marines now raising, there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, 'Don't tread on me.' As I know it is the custom to have some device on the arms of every country, I supposed this may have been intended for the arms of America."
This anonymous writer, having "nothing to do with public affairs" and "in order to divert an idle hour," speculated on why a snake might be chosen as a symbol for America.
First, it occurred to him that "the Rattle-Snake is found in no other quarter of the world besides America."
The rattlesnake also has sharp eyes, and "may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance." Furthermore,
"She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage. ... she never wounds 'till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her."
Finally,
"I confess I was wholly at a loss what to make of the rattles, 'till I went back and counted them and found them just thirteen, exactly the number of the Colonies united in America; and I recollected too that this was the only part of the Snake which increased in numbers. ...
"'Tis curious and amazing to observe how distinct and independent of each other the rattles of this animal are, and yet how firmly they are united together, so as never to be separated but by breaking them to pieces. One of those rattles singly, is incapable of producing sound, but the ringing of thirteen together, is sufficient to alarm the boldest man living."
Many scholars now agree that this "American Guesser" was Benjamin Franklin.