As careers wind down, the all-consuming need to stay in the news increases daily. The antiwar movement is just another tool for getting attention.

Look at Raoul's comment below regarding the media, "We exist!" Negative press is good press. I mean who really cares what France or Germany think? Who cares what Russia thinks? Who cares what Zimbabwe thinks?

It's not like any of these places are the cutting edge of political evolvement or good judgement. The antiwar nations are all in bed with Saddam and don't want to lose what they have worked so hard to get - Saddam's blood money.

Being a celebrity, Going to Germany and bashing America plays fine for the German heroin addict crowd and every card-carrying communist and the heavily pierced vegetables...er, I mean "Greens."

Are there that many stupid people in the world?

In a word...yes.

If the global capacity for intelligent thought on earth were required to light a lightbulb - the light would barely even flicker every other hour.

Jealousy of the US abroad and jealousy of George Bush's stunning mid-term election victory at home - has spawned a group of unhappy whiners hoping to tear Bush down.

These folks don't give diddly squat about Saddam or Iraq - and five out of ten protesters probably couldn't find Iraq on a map. It's all about attention and validation for these folks.

Negative media attention brings in money. Michael Jackson will make more money this year than in the past five combined. Martin Sheen will make more money...Madonna will make more money and George Clooney wants a piece of that action and media attention as well.

I think it is ironic that Charlemagne in France stopped the muslim conquest of europe and now France has been taken over due to their own failed conquests in muslim Africa.

It seems almost like France is cursed to be controlled by outsiders, either visibly or invisibly.

We beat one set of evil axis powers before - we can beat another now.

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