WTF Is It Now?!?

Bush/Powell 'diplomacy' was a joke - and a pathetic failure
Next up: the Nooculer Nincompoop deals with North Korea and Iran!
"We can certainly expect the war to be run with more professionalism than the diplomacy that has led up to the war [which] recalled Freedonia going to war in Duck Soup, except that the Marx Brothers meant to be funny... A final UN resolution and vote were abandoned by the allies not only because they lacked the votes for authorizing war, but also because they faced the possibility of a majority vote against them - sending them to war in actual defiance of the Security Council. The problem was not the French veto. America and Britain had already said they would be satisfied with a 'moral victory' - a majority vote the French were forced to veto. The allies were blocked by concern that Angola, Chile, Pakistan, Cameroon, Guinea and Mexico might vote against them. This inability to persuade (or even intimidate or bribe) friendly countries on a matter so vital to the U.S. government is unprecedented in postwar history." - William Pfaff, courtesy of democrats.com.