Useful idiots

[Scott MacLean]

Modern day `useful idiots' It was Lenin, of course, who coined the apt 
phrase "useful idiots" to describe the legion of defenders and apologists 
in the Western democracies for his murderous regime.

These misguided ideological groupies continued apace during Stalin's 
man-made famine in the Soviet Union - which killed more people than died in 
Hitler's Holocaust - and through Mao's man-made famine in Communist China, 
which caused even more deaths than Stalin's heinous activities did.

Lenin, Stalin and Mao, of course, are long gone. But the armies of "useful 
idiots" remain alive and well in the West, as witnessed by the-so- called 
"peace" marches - i.e. mostly anti-American, with a side-order of 
anti-Israeli - in major cities in the free world last weekend.

The same sorry mentality which many Britains displayed in 1939 to cheer 
Chamberlain's pronouncement of "Peace in our Time," after his (in)famous 
meeting with Hitler - and pooh-poohed Winston Churchill's warnings of 
danger - was on display both on the streets of cities around the world and 
in the mainstream media too boot.

Nobody seems to be demanding that Iraqi dictator. Saddam Hussein should 
actually live up to numerous United Nations resolutions which have 
condemned his arms buildup. Instead, the peaceniks are hellbent on making 
the Americans the bad guys.

Nobody blinks when France, the most hypocritical nation on earth - which 
has supplied Hussein with more deadly weapons than any other country (at 
one point in the 1980s 40 per cent of all French arms exports were going to 
Iraq) - threatens to use its veto on the UN security council to hold the 
West to ransom.

The American-haters consistently claim that U.S. President George Bush is 
really after Iraq's oil. The fact is, it is France, more than any other 
country, which has traded any principles it may have once had in return for 
more Iraqi oil, and it is France - even more than Germany (which, besides 
its own fine history of promoting world peace, has supplied Hussein with 
most of his chemical weaponry) - which is desperate to keep Iraqi oil 
flowing in and French merchandise flowing out.

It was France who sold Iraq its Mirage F-1 fighter planes. It was France, 
when no other country would agree, who sold Hussein the advanced technology 
he needed three decades ago to build a nuclear reactor (the one Israel blew 
up 20 years ago.) It was France which led the opposition to sanctions 
against Iraq after Hussein attacked Kuwait and lobbed missiles at Israel. 
It was France - followed by the Russians, Italians, British and to a much 
smaller degree the Americans - who armed Hussein after he started the 
Iran-Iraq war, yet every day on the streets and in the media we hear the 
Big Lie that it was the Americans who armed Hussein and now they want to 
disarm him.

The people out marching on the streets - even those who are quite genuine 
in their concerns about war - should ask themselves whether the Iraqi 
people, whom they claim to be concerned about, are better off being forced 
to live under Hussein or would be better off with Hussein gone. The answer, 
surely, is obvious.

As for Canada, well, Prime Minister Jean Chretien managed to go to Chicago 
last week and tell an American audience that Americans, our best friends 
and allies - not to mention major trading partners - can't be trusted to 
tell the truth. Compared to Hussein? Can he be serious?

What's more, it is easy to stand up for peace, as Chretien and the 
protesting peaceniks do, and criticize U.S. policy, without bothering to 
offer any alternative.

Chretien says it's best to go through the UN. Well, the Americans - and 
their true allies, which includes most Western countries, except Canada, 
France, Germany and Belgium - have gone through the UN. Over and over again.

Finally, because of U.S. insistence that Hussein was laughing in their 
faces the Security Council passed a resolution demanding Hussein to disarm 
or face serious consequences.

So what consequences to these yahoos have in mind? Why, yet another 
sharply-worded resolution.

Why doesn't Chretien - along with his anti-American soulmates - demand that 
Iraq explain itself before the UN, rather than put the onus on George Bush 
or Tony Blair to explain their actions?

As for France, we see in recent dispatches that they've now invited another 
maniacal dictator, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to visit, just two days after 
the European Union renewed its sanctions against him.

Even Hussein must be surprised at just how many useful idiots there are in 
the West.
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