So, before you go in you have to prove why you did it first? Still begs the question of why you feel you have to have permission in the first place, or why you automatically assume that nations like France and Germany have a better idea of what the right thing to do would be, or would act out of noble motives.

It's already been proven that some of the nations who fought us in the U.N. were on the take from Iraq. Does this make no difference to you at all?

You missed the point on France. If we actually shoved Iraqi atomic missiles up Chirac's nose, he would still have opposed the invasion. This isn't about the war on terror for some nations. It's about power, and who's going to call the shots in the world.

All use of language aside, it's painfully obvious from Kerry's past behavior in the Senate and from simply listening to him, that America's own interests are not going to be number one on his priority list if they seem to conflict with those other nations that he apparently sees as morally superior and possessed of a better perception of how the world works. And trying to put on a John Wayne personna isn't working for him. He has decades of a consistent pattern of appeasement, withdrawal, and surrender to live down.