Look pilgrims, we do have allies to come to our aid. Spain and Bulgaria are on our side.

True, it seems the rest of the industrial (and even quasi-industrial world) are against us, but hey, we haven't heard from Cameroon yet.

Using pure market forces surely we can buy some more UN support.

I mean Reuter News said the Bush administration has captianed the ship of state to a Feb. loss of 308,000 jobs, the job market is dismal, retail sales are sluggish and we have soaring oil prices.

Barrons reports that Fannie Mae debt increased $350 billion last year and their debt load went up to $700 billion, or a whopping 10% of the nations housing equity.

Credit Suisse reports that the stock market declines since Bush took office has caused $200 billion in pension fund loss for the S&P 500---none of which was refrlected on their corporate income statement as other than footnotes. But hey, privatization of Social Security will allow enough influx of investment funds to cover this, right?

Of course the unemployment picture is a little rough. The long term jobless rate of 22.1% of the unemployed is the highest since the great depression. Doesn't look good.

And payrolls have declined for 20 months, the longest decline since the mid 1940's according to the Economic Policy Institute.

But if all good and true Republicans will draw their SUV's in a circle, declare their born- again status, we may yet prove the wisdom of bombing Iraq and granting thousands the opportunity of meeting Allah.

Yeah, and if the rest of the world continues to object, if the Beastie Boys keep publishing songs like "In a World Gone Mad" we might seek out more of the 140 million Muslims and let them sample MOAB.

Of course the 12 million Muslims in the US would have to go also. We must make the sacrifice of seeing all those 7-11 stores closed.

Yeah, and what's with John Cougar Mellancamp? His audience has always been farmers, red-knecks, and the born again. You know, the Bush constituency. Turns out he has an anti-war song out---To Washington.

Time to watch each other's backs boyo's because everyone else is wrong. We know this because Rush Limberger has a letter from God--and Duhbya has read it.

How about a tax cut for SUV owners to ease the burden of $3.00 a gal. gas?

Publius