When not as I do starts to take over for do as I say.

The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 57% of the 1008 people polled think that the War on Iraq is/was NOT worthwhile. It's not surprising when even the mainstream news seems to be reporting increased violence there. The 360 photos of flag draped coffins the Pentagon has recently been forced to release make any decline in the percentage of dissent doubtful. The capture of what is said to be al Qaeda's #3 man in Pakistan further typifies where Our War on Terrorism should be, if anywhere. Imagine if we took the $200,000,000,000.00 we've spent in Iraq and maintained our forces in Afghanistan (the Pakistani border in particular). Imagine Our eyes trained on the hunt for al Qaeda and its leaders and not distracted by the "evil" dictator no one thought was a threat worthy of invasion, except for the neo-conmen in charge of Our government. Unlike a coalition that seems to be forming in Venezuela, Our "coalition" is so strained that the struggling Italian government is using discrepancies in the story about Our troops killing their agent to showcase their ability to disagree with the current US administration. Reports of "fake interrogations" at Guatanamo Bay certainly haven't helped confidence. Lynndie England can't even plead guilty to the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib prison without a fight.

Maybe international relations will improve after the UN's month long conference on the Nonproliferation Treaty. I doubt it. We, especially this administration, like Our nucLEar options, literally and figuratively, intact. Don't believe me? Take it from President Jimmy Carter or better yet the current secretary of defense. The conference has been given about thirty more seconds of coverage than the "thousands" of anti-nuke, anti-war protestors that marched on the UN just prior to the meeting. So don’t worry about something interrupting the coverage of some cold footed bribe faking her own abduction or Macaulay Culkin’s testimony. After all, we do live in a place and time where the President of the United States gets cut off for Paris Hilton and Donald Trump.