New on Drudge....
It's no surprise that underemployed ex-Soviet apparitcheks would facillitate the survival of a man who models himself on Stalin. The Russians I can understand. But the French!? Perhaps the French were seduced by Saddam's extravegantly expensive palaces, which of course could still never compare to one small rooom at Versaillies. The resemblence to Louis XIV is striking and might have stirred Chirac's imagination with admiration that a ruler in the modern world could get away with such outrageous behaviour. Here you have the French strategy in a nutshell. Let them suffer under cruel dictatorships for another 100 years or so and they will become more like Frenchman than Americans.
My American friends, you will get some payback from the axis of weasels. A powerful argument is being made for forgiving Iraq's foreign debt. The weasels lose alot of money, and the world gets to see just how much they were involved in extenting the thralldom of 20 million people.