[Cyber Liberty]

"Resolution 1441, painstakingly negotiated by General Powell and French Foreign Minister de Villepin, was never a test of Saddam. It was a test of the U.N. The faxed-in boilerplate responses to the Powell presentation couldn't have been clearer."

Yup. Mark nails it here. This whole UN fiasco was *not* a test of Saddam, it was a test of UN resolve, and the UN flunked. There was never any doubt in my feeble mind that we're goin' in, no matter what the fiddlebudgets in the Security Council want to do.

[r9etb]

Yup. Mark nails it here. This whole UN fiasco was *not* a test of Saddam, it was a test of UN resolve, and the UN flunked. There was never any doubt in my feeble mind that we're goin' in, no matter what the fiddlebudgets in the Security Council want to do.

This it their "League of Nations" moment. And, ironically enough, France is once again playing a leading role.

The French Republic -- what a waste of beautiful real estate.