You have to admit that's a good one. "Shock and Awe" as a way of combating terrorism. Abu Ghraib? Shipping containers filled with suffocated captives?

Anyone "disappeared", that you know of. Fog and Night? Biden been down to the CIA trying to tell analysts how to interpret data? Anyone claimed WMDs in order to start a war?

Hell, has Biden shot anyone in the face and then disappeared for 12 hours to sober up? Has Obama choked on a pretzel, either while drunk or sober?

What do you hear? Those alternative life forms have to have come up with something! Oh, yes, the Iraqis are simply wallowing in freedom, democracy, fresh water, regular electricity, schools, hospitals. Yer basic Iraqi now enjoys his family life, religion, keeping his goddamned mouth shut, voting.

Well, yes, NATO and the US is still bombing children, women, schools, weddings. But the military, they just hate Afghans, right? Collateral damage. The best "hearts and minds" are splattered all over the side of a convent.

But you have to admit it's better. More mercenaries, private enterprise at work, no more Saddam and best of all - Iraq has been rid of WMDs except for ours.