[Congressman Billybob]

Regarding your comment about the non-military background of the French Defense Minister, these lines by Gilbert & Sullivan apply:

"Stick close to your desk, and never go to sea,
And you may be the ruler of the Queen's Nav-ee."

Congressman Billybob

This column is based on the fine work by FReepers in a thread on FR. Click for "Ballistics and Bullsh*t"

Click for "Til Death Do Us Part."

Click for "to Restore Trust in America"

[dighton]

Perfect.

Here's a bonus selection, not quite as apt but impossible to pass up, from The Gondoliers:

In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind --
He found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran,
His place was at the fore, O --
That celebrated,
Cultivated,
Underrated
Nobleman,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!