So DougR, if your friends disagree with you on a particular subject, do you shout them down, hurl really hurtful public insults at them, tell them what ungrateful parasites they are, and shut them out of your life? Just for disagreeing with you or someone you agree with?

That is the equivalent of what you are talking about with France and Germany. Because they disagree with the Bush administration on how to disarm Iraq, is no justification for the villification they are receiving from this administration, or from this nation's mainstream media. It is shocking, appalling, and deeply disturbing to hear this sort of rhetoric being levelled against our staunchest allies.