Weasels: too good for Axis?
WEASEL enthusiasts don't like it when Germany's Gerhard Schroeder and France's Jacques Chirac are compared to weasels. It's unfair, they say - to weasels. When The Post put weasel heads on the suited bodies of the "Axis of Weasels" UN reps, Weasel Central went into red alert. The Web site is "dedicated to ending the irrational hatred of mustela nivalis that has dominated Western Culture." "First off, it's a bad stereotype because weasels are distinctly a North American animal - they are very hard to find in France," People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' Ingrid Newkirk informs us. "They are also fierce warriors, Rambo types." Newkirk advises that "the poodle" is a better representation of the French. "Poodles are pretty, chic, pensive," she notes. "They like to make love, not war." Another thing: weasels eat rodents and insects, not snails and sauerkraut. And their bellies are white - not yellow.