[UncleSamUSA]

I agree with you about the Larry King show last night. I usually never watch LK, but I sat through the entire program last night transfixed by the incredible amount of America bashing going on. They had the anchor of some Arabic TV station, some woman author who claimed that this operation will be as unsuccessful as Afghanistan (that's right she felt Afghan was not a success), they had Hack and another "retired General" who both felt this war plan was a travesty...

but to me anyway, the biggest surprise was Arthur Kent. You remember, the Scud Stud from the Gulf War. AK was in London and he sounded like a paid mouthpiece for Saddam Hussein, or he sounded like he was on the al Jazeera payroll. He is so against this operation and so against the US, that at the end even Larry King was speechless, and threw up his hands in exasperation saying "Wow, this whole panel seems to be so negative!"

The only semi-sane voice was some writer for the Wash Post who kept saying that while things may look cloudy now, he was convinced that when the masses of Iraqi citizens were SURE Saddam was gone, they WOULD rise up and help us and that the whole thing would look different.

But Arthur Kent so thoroughly disgusted me with his virulent anti-Americanism that he even made the moronic Hackworth look like a Rummy buddy.

[UncleSamUSA]

I forgot to mention that the absolute highlight (i.e. lowlight) of the entire hour was when that idiotic woman author actually won the Antiwar Daily Double by using the words "QUAGMIRE" and "MOGADISHU" [both meant in an Anti-US sense] within 30 seconds of each other in response to two different questions.

[JimRed]

...some woman author who claimed that this operation will be as unsuccessful as Afghanistan

In her eyes, it WAS unsuccessful; the bad guys didn't win and Bush looked good.

[albertabound]

I am sad to report that Kent is a Canadian and was criticizing Bush for not widening the coalition with more substantial allies and next door neighbours like Mexico and Canada. As a Canadian, if more time would have gotten us on board, I would be a lot happier today.