The President spoke a day after France, Russia and Germany presented a united front vowing to stop any Security Council resolution authorizing war at this stage, and the same day as China backed the naysayers and Britain moved to amend the U.S. resolution in order to accommodate the skeptics' demand that inspections be given more time.

But the Franco-Russian-German camp remain unmoved, with Russia and France even brandishing the threat of a veto.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,430194,00.html

Q, was the title of this thread your original idea? Very clever, if I might say so.

*crosses fingers* please vote the Republicans out of office, oh please oh please I'll stop looking at the pictures of naked ladies...

Yes, vote in Libertarians !

Or at least any person not..dumb..and warmongerish.

That article is pretty disturbing. Using econmic pressure to make countries side with them and go to war? That is pretty insane. That really doesn't fit with the noble American image that is attempting to be displayed.

"warmongerish warmongerish warmongerish warmongerish"
I want to get these words flashing through W's teleprompter next speech, see how fast he can say it 5 times. Surely someone knows someone who knows someone who can do it.