Tikkabik

Colin Powell's speech before the UN Security Council may have lacked the punch of Stevenson's famous "hell freezes over" query to the Soviet ambassador, but it was okay in my book. He made a pretty compelling case that Iraq's been fucking around way too much, but it's clear that the vote's still out for using force to make Iraq comply.

Listen, these Iraqi guys are, for the most part, sleazeballs. Saddam Hussein's manly images showing him wearing a fedora, sucking on cigars and firing rifles make him look like a third-rate country bumpkin, which, from all I've read, ain't far from the truth. And watching Amer al-Sa'adi try to convince the world press that it's all just smoke and mirrors makes me feel nauseated. Even Blix and ElBaradei, the Batman and Robin of the UN weapons inspection team, seem pretty content with the analysis that Iraq is full of shit -- not to mention chemical and biological weapons.

But does that mean that it's time for GI Joe to invade? Not by a longshot. Ultimately, the people that are gonna get screwed the worst are the civilians, because they're the ones who ALWAYS take it in the seat during a war, America's best war technology be damned.

Personally, I think Iraqi VP Taha Yassin Ramadan is on the right track -- let's make Saddam and Dubya RASSLE for it.

And by the way: Americans are fucking idiots.