Re Meme
We just played 2:2 against Canada in the next round, so now I'm beginning to think that...
... That too many good players are tied up in the Stanley Cup... hehe...
Observed from the outside and from a nation that perhaps were a more eager coalition participant than even the UK, I have to agree conditionally.
Bush pushed his agenda on Iraq using the WMD card and it was obvious that he had no case. If countries, therefore, on that pretext, deside not to join this latest coalition, Bush and his administration had better accept it and do the war according to whatever underlying agenda they had (which is not "liberating an oppressed people". Had that been the case, there would have been little point in going half way around the world - he had needed go no further than Cuba to build a similar case).
Alienating those countries who declined with frankly wild and unwarranted accusations and redicule was not called for. As little as it's called for that anyone who disagree with the Bush administration, domestically, are protrayed as "unpatriotic".
That last issue give me a really bad feeling of neo-MacCarthyism... ("tow the line, or we'll call you a Communist. Critisize, and we'll have you fired and isolated as an outcast and a public enemy" ).
One should be able to disagree to that, whether one is Republican or Democrat, whether one is American or German and whether ones leader is called "Bush" or "Comrade Napoleon".
KD
