"Who will help me SNIFF the Bread" said Henny Penny...

[BiggJawn]

Remember the old nursery rhyme "Henny Penny", where the chicken starts off with some wheat and winds up with a loaf of bread, all the while asking the other animals if they'd like to help, with everyone refusing until it was time to eat?

If you turn it around a bit, it reminds me of the Iraq situation. Only with Bushy-Wushy finding a few grains of something and trying to blow it up, all the while with the rest of the world telling him not to do it.

Now that Bushy-Wushy has pulled a burnt cinder of a loaf from the fire, he wants everyone to come in and help hime bake another, but he'll only let them sniff the loaf. Only Cheney's buddies at Halliburton will get to eat it.
And he can't understand why nobody is interested in sending their troops to die under the expert "leadership" of the US golf-club generals.

Why is Chimpy McCokespoon so unwilling to let the UN have a bigger role?
Could it be because the UN would give the Iraqi people a much bigger "cut" on The Oil than the buck-a-barrel Halliburton will give them? (they got EXPENSES, you know!)

[tom_paine]

1. And mouths to feed...

You'd be surprised how much it costs to keep an entire generation of Caligulas and Neros (and, thanks to progress, some Neroettes, too) in cocaine and orgies...

[xchrom]

2. more people would confirm

that iraq was not a threat.
and president mccokespoon couldn't plug all the holes.