But the Sophisticated Know This Just Is Not Possible

It is not possible for secular Iraq to cooperate with Islamic fanatic al Qaeda, right? It is just silly to think two such opposite organizations could join forces and cooperate. I mean the very idea!

Apparently, it is not so far fetched. And the presentation by Secretary Powell bolstered both the case for this connection and the case regarding weapons of mass destruction. He devastated the idea that even more inspections can work to disarm Iraq. Now, the skeptics will begin weighing the denials of Saddam that he supports terrorism and that he pursues nuclear and other prohibited weapons against the evidence that has been public knowledge for a decade or more and the evidence Powell presented today.

The usual suspects will not be persuaded. They are not persuadable. We should now stop giving a damn what they think. We should rest at ease knowing we went far further than anybody else would in justifying before the world our intention to use our military to defend ourselves.

Oh my God, our friends the French are on. The esteemed French representative stated that Powell's presentation bolsters the case for further inspections! Tough that they are, they want expanded inspections. Richard Perle is right, France is no longer an ally (shoot, the case can be made that this has been true since 1799; only we haven't realized it through saving their butts through two world wars and the Cold War--notwithstanding the fear in Moscow of the vaunted Force de Frappe) If that SOB talks about a moral approach to Iraq as if France of all countries possesses that wisdom, I will truly throw a fit.

I swear, we should just close our embassy in Paris. They pine for the EU super state, so let's just move those diplomats to Brussels. I was going to resist, but I can't: damn those cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

But business before pleasure, as they say. Iraq is in further material breach of the UN resolutions requiring Iraqi disarmament. We need nothing further from the United Nations.

Stealth fighters are reportedly moving. Our planes are lifting ground forces at a rapid pace. Carriers and Marines are converging.

On to Baghdad.

And then, out of Paris.