May 2, 2002

Wag the Bunnypants: Napoleon Bonehead, Sharon's Lapdog

The Moron of Midland has done a lot in very little time to undermine the macho image of Texans worldwide. Foreign leaders now see there is no apparent limit to the defiance he will endure from his friend Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister. Never has the tail wagged the dog quite so energetically or humiliatingly. Foreigners tend to have longer memories than Americans, particularly in the Middle East, and outside of Israel, diplomats unfavorably contrast bush's behavior with the way his father went nose to nose with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir when the latter assumed -- wrongly -- that he could defy the White House on the question of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory.

Now, two weeks after ignoring Squinty the Chimp's demand for an end -- "without delay" -- to Israel's Operation Defensive Shield, Sharon has succeeded in rebuffing a U.N. fact-finding mission in Jenin, apparently with U.S. blessing. (Read the whole thing at SmirkingChimp.com!)



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