Rapaire..I too remember the Vietnam years...joined the Communist party in 1962, so I was very much against American policy,but I believe the Invasion of Iraq is potentially more of a danger to the West than the Vietnam War.

The politicians today are also more cynical.
At least the American leaders started out believing their own rhetoric in Vietnam. In Iraq they started out lying and have continued to lie, while the bodies on both sides pile higher.

In new Orleans they are trying desperately to shift the blame on to anyone they can, but everyone knows, "the buck stops" with the president.

McGrath.. I think your "cunning plan" might work very well in the UK (remember the unimpressed ladies of the WI), but I dont think it would take off in the cultural wilderness of the USA...Ake