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A little comparison between France and the United States. Even monkeys can tell the difference. FRANCE UNITED STATES

Saddam is what Alfred Hitchcock called the MacGuffin. Like the top-secret formula in The 39 Steps or the uranium in Notorious, he's the pretext for the movie, but he's not really what the movie's about. Despite the best efforts of the French and Germans, the old butcher will be gone in a few weeks. The real debate in Washington is about the speed and scale of post-Saddam Middle Eastern reform: There are legitimate differences about that but the "post-Saddam" bit of it is taken for granted. As noted in this space many months ago, he's being taken out first because...

Lead by American University College Republicans, 40 students from American University and Maryland sallied forth to French Embassy on Reservoir Road to decry France’s strategy of hoping the Saddam will go away. As with all conservatives, they had obtained a permit, they were well behaved and had checked in with the Secret Service. They had great enthusiasm and were spirited in their chants as only the young can be. They sang our National Anthem and recited the pledge of allegiance. People leaving the embassy were greeted with shouts of shame and honor your commitment, peace through strength. TV crews were...

French online cheese boutique, Fromage.com, is receiving a raft of e-mails from irate US customers who may like the cheese, but take offence at France’s position on Iraq, in what seems to be the start of an unofficial boycott of French goods, according to a report from Reuters. While American lawmakers are drafting legislation to impose sanctions on French water and wine because of the country’s demand that a case for war against Iraq has yet to be made, and her hawkish columnists are calling France a nation of ‘cheese-eating surrender-monkeys,’ Main Street, USA has stopped ordering French cheese online....

US cheese boycott creates a stink for French Jon Henley in Paris Thursday February 13, 2003The GuardianA French internet cheesemonger who sells most of his camembert and roquefort to Americans has become the first victim of the fast-ripening stink over Iraq currently souring Franco-US relations. Marc Refabert, the co-founder of fromages.com, which does more than 80% of its business with America, said his company's sales had fallen "substantially" in the face of Paris's steadfast refusal to back Washington's march to war. "I'm getting inundated with emails from people saying they're not going to buy my products until France changes it's...

Angry members of Congress threaten to crack down on imports of French bottle water and wine in retribution for France's position on Iraq... House Speaker Hastert also considering whether the United States should require 'bright orange warning labels' on French wines that are clarified with bovine blood... Developing...

Ok, call me nitpicky but whats the deal with freepers misspelling the word serious by spelling it series? Also the word HUGE is not spelled hugh. This is driving me absolutely CRAZY. Ok my rant is over, thanks for reading.

Just about time for President Bush' State of the Union Address. No doubt, Iraq and the econonmy will share center stage. If I may, I'll make a prediction. Unless this economy turns around, the Republican's will loose both the White House and the Senate in 2004. It does not matter a bit whether a war with Iraq happens, or if it does, how quickly or how long it takes the US to win it. The only thing that might affect this is to suffer another devastating terrorist attack within 8 months of the next general election. This is too horrible...

...Freerepublic.com will collapse under the sheer weight of the stupidity generated there daily. It will be reborn as Fascists-R-Us.com....

What-If Politics of Flight 93 By John Armor This much we know: United Flight 93 was hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Terrorists flying the plane turned it back toward Washington to use it as a flying bomb against the U.S. Capitol, where Congress was in session. By then, the terrorists probably had cut the throats of the flight crew. Using cell phones, the passengers discovered that two other hijacked planes had been flown into the World Trade Center twin towers. The passengers realized their plane was intended for a similar fate; they and many others would die if they did...