GUEST: I'll address your question this one time. If you will identify yourself, I'll continue the conversation or debate with you. Otherwise forget it.

The Bush administration is not screaming, yelling or expressing itself in any of the ways you describe in your first paragraph. They are using diplomacy to try to convince France and Germany to hold Iraq to what it is supposed to do! Abide by Resolution 1441! Simple. Instead, those two countries joined by Belgium are merely giving Saddam encouragement to continue the cat and mouse game with the inspectors.

I still think Andy Rooney was on target, and I don't think it is unseemly to remind countries when we have come to their aid that they owe us. Were we to have loaned them money, we would expect to be repaid. It's just that the aid given France in WW2 was in the form of blood. The blood of our service people.

DougR