[Dane]

Ok, I admit I'm a little slow but after seeing the photos and doing a few searches, I realize what's really going on in France. Why is Sarkozy such a lightning rod? Because he's Jewish and could be in line for PM

Sorkozy and de villepin are the main candidates for the 2007 presidential election.

Sorkozy is tough on crime and pro-American I believe, while de villepin is your dime a dozen french surrender monkey.

[Chanticleer]

It dawned on me that this thread is much like the hurricane threads of late. You know a storm is coming. You know it's going to hit somewhere, but you don't know the exact time, the place or the strength. So we sit and watch the forecasts, waiting for the models to come together in agreement.

A storm is coming. We don't know how strong it will be, but we suspect it will be very, very bad. We don't know exactly where it will first strike -- the U.S., France, Italy, Britain, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Australia, Israel or all of the above. What we are seeing now is just the outer bands, a few little squalls that foretell the coming storm.

The one difference is that we couldn't stop the hurricanes; we could only prepare to weather the storm.

Can we stop this thing? Can we prevent WWIII or Holocaust II?