Damn! If only we had the FRENCH on on this, all would be well! (s/o)
Tomorrow Jacques al Qerri will tell us all how, due to his intimate friendships with Kofi Annan and dozens of other major world leaders, none of this would happen if he were POTUS. He may even say he met al Sadr on one of his "super secret" Cambodia-style recon missions.
And yet, every lefty intimates that unless we grovel to them, we're somehow endangering the war on terror. France and Germany are cooperating with us (more or less) on intel matters. It behooves them too, the Islamists hate them as much as they hate us.