Let me get this straight. The United States fabricates a deadline and a motive to invade Iraq. Meanwhile, former allies question the U.S. timeline and motives, and Rummy has the audacity to go to Munich and school them? He rebukes NATO, Belgium, France, and his host Germany...

And people have to ask why Americans are hated overseas?

I cannot think of poems of late. I can write them or write what I think of a poem, but I cannot consider poetics at the moment.