A great opportunity to "shut up"?

Ah, from the seat of democracy....

Branding joint letters signed by Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic with EU members Britain, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Portugal, and by the so-called Vilnius 10 group of EU and NATO candidates "infantile" and "dangerous," [French President Jacques] Chirac said: "They missed a great opportunity to shut up."

Why is it that the most liberal, most left-leaning, most proudly "open-minded" strive the hardest to tell their opposition to just shut up and go away? I mean, these are the very people who promote diversity and call for us all to embrace other ideas, yet they get truly testy when they meet opposition. Witness, er, Chirac.

Yes, yes, a weasel. A beeeeeg one.

ROFL!

Instapundit reports, I get a great laugh. Quoting a piece from Opinion.Telegraph:

For the first time in the build-up to action against Iraq, the newspapers of the Anglosphere are united in a blizzard of abuse against the French. In Paris, Le Monde has finally been obliged to translate Bart Simpson's phrase that is now on everyone's lips.

The French, say the mass-circulation papers in Britain and America, are nothing but "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" (les primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage), and, you know what, I couldn't agree more.

Les primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage....

Damn, I like that!

Simply Amazing

Let me see if I understand this correctly....

Last month the Belgian senate amended the 1993 "universal jurisdiction" law to let prosecutors to investigate suspected war criminals even if they do not live in Belgium, removing the restriction which has so far prevented them investigating cases abroad.

So, Belgium has just decided that They have exclusive authority, jurisdiction, etc., over the entire world? Their senate passes a law and, poof voila, they can -- literally -- hold court over the rest of the planet.

Interesting.

Sounds awful damn unilateral (or, as Instapundit put it, imperialistic) to me, little self-righteous ninnies. Oh, I forgot. They belong to the Axis of Weasels, even if it is only in Mini-Me minion mode.

Hey, I don't think I understand the implications of this! We can just get the House and Senate to pass a bill, one that Bush is sure to sign. We'll give the US exclusive right to prosecute anyone anywhere for anything. Then we trot right into Belgium because an imperialist power they are responsible for five and eight million deaths. Oh, sure, King Leopold is long dead, but so what? Reality doesn't interfere with them, why should it both us?

Oh, and by strange coincidence in that link about Belgium being an imperialist nation, it lists the top six. They are:

1 - ENGLAND
2 - FRANCE
3 - GERMANY
4 - BELGIUM
5 - PORTUGAL
6 - NETHERLANDS

Lookee there, the Axis of Weasels all in a row! I feel so...nauseous.