The correct phrase is "All of my TELEKENETIC power". He will sit on his ass and think deep thoughts and serve up mindless platitudes while real men and women of the American armed forces (and our wonderful British and Australian allies)go in and clean up the mess that Germany has had a large part in creating over the past decade.

As for the French - my Mother taught me that if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say it at all. However, (sorry Mom), let's not forget that Frances' largest oil company, ElfTotalFina (a good 'ol conglomerate)has billions of dollars at stake in Iraqi investments made in over the past decade in defiance of the UN embargo.

The UN IS the kids' table, we're just nice enough to play house with them.

Though, hopefully, that will change soon.

Deoxy you took the words right out of my mouth.

Let's see. The Maginot Line was an incredibly expensive military defensive system that was not completed due to reasons of both costs and politics. Enemies of the country found it easy to bypass the system. Do the words "missile defense" mean anything? hello? hello?

You mean the missle defense that made the Soviet Union so nervous they spent themselves right out of business? Or the missile defense that recently just shot down a missile off the west coast in testing? Either will do.

I'm with FDL. Far better to bomb non-democratic countries back into the Stone Age at the first sign they are developing nuclear weapons.

The sad thing is I believe that France is mad not because of their massive oil contracts with Iraq. Their ego has taken a beating. They aren't 'new Europe'. They are 'old Europe', as Rumsfield said.

And it feels like mid-winter Kansas here in SC this past week. Hello to all my former friends in Wichita!

FDL:

There is a psycho with a missile. He's willing to die (and let everyone in his country die) to kill Americans. He launches his missile.

Currently, our response is to nuke back - that means, he succeeds. Hundreds of thousands to millions of American citizens die in a nuclear explosion and from the fallout.

Do you have a better solution? Since it's almost certain that you're against the "bomb them back to the stone age" solution, I'd love to hear your suggestions.

Ah, good old France. Wonder if this has anything to with their current feelings:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2670399.stm

...not to mention their growing hatred of Jews.

1. Yes, I have some free time today.

2. This will make you laugh: http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg012403.asp

P.S. It's about the French...

First, the idea of Tony's sweet wife (and my oldest friend, I'll brag -- no, not that she is eighty-six and uses a walker, it's that we've known each other since 7th grade -- okay, you get the point) even saying the words, "bomb non-democratic countries back into the Stone Age" is one of those shocking but funny things you don't expect but howl at, regardless of your personal views. Secondly, as I sit here and sip on a rather non-assuming Bourdeaux that probably could have stood to age another year or so, I have to tell you that I am happy to separate France's politics from some better attributes I found in a vacation I had in Paris a few years ago. I know, they are culture snobs, but please, whatever happens, make sure that they keep producing such gastronomic delights as can only be found in their beloved boulangeries, patisseries and frommageries. I don't care who occupies them (Germans in the last century, Russians the century before that, and the English so many times before that), LET THEM COOK! And let me say now to whomever wants to get upset and tell me to go live there, listen to what I'm saying: Their politics stink, their food is great. So go Super-size that!