but big k asked for one thing of substance regarding iraq that kerry had mentioned, and so i offered the international summit idea

Right, and I'm saying that if there's no reasonable expectation that such a summit would yield significantly more help, it isn't a substantial proposal. Kerry's international summit idea is pie in the sky fluff. At best it would be a diplomatic circle jerk.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

The summit's already been done. The total intransigence of the French, Russians and Germans to even consider helping out was palpable. What makes you think that Chirac et al are now going to be anymore helpful, when they've already come out and said that they won't be supplying any troops, regardless of who's in the White House?

All three of those countries, plus the U.N., are about to blasted by a House committee examining the whole U.N. Oil-For-Food program, which gives another possible motive for why there was a total reluctance by those three nations to go to an already-approved action against Iraq by the United States and its allies.

Additionally, Iraq was already in violation of U.N. Resolution 687 when it fired rockets at our aircraft patrolling the "no-fly" zones. As the aggrieved party, and under the terms of the surrender signed by Iraq at the end of the first Gulf War, we had every right under international law to do what we did back in '03.

The equivocating about Kerry's vote for "authorization" or "approval" or whatever he wants to call it when it came time to show our cards to Saddam's Iraq belies the fact that EVERYONE in the Senate KNEW that going to war was just what was "approved", Kerry's protestations and parsing after the fact to the contrary. Maybe he didn't get it, seeing as how he missed most of the votes on the floor and in his own Senate Intelligence Committee. Perhaps that's why he now professes ignorance and surprise at our going to war.

Really, has he ever been in the least bit consistent about his stand on the war on terror? I worked for an old Marine colonel who used to say that guys like him were just "spineless jellyfish, floating whichever way the current took them".

And he's still a CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER MONKEY!! (hee-hee)

Tony