November 18, 2002
WAR: "'Gotta take Saddam out and figure it out afterwards!"
Tim Blair notes an item in Tina Brown's latest column, quoting Robert De Niro, yet another liberal Manhattanite who gets it after September 11:
"Robert De Niro, a Democrat like most of his Hollywood brethren, suddenly broke his usual mordant reserve at a dinner party this week to declare: 'Gotta take Saddam out and figure it out afterwards! Saddam is history and the world will have America to thank for it!'" Picture this in your head being delivered in the style of your favorite De Niro line for a little entertainment. ("I want this guy dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I want to go there in the middle of the night and piss on his ashes!")