[mburbank]

That plan sounds as good as the one we currently have. It's sort of like good old fashiond 'bomb them back to the stone age', but substitute the word democracy for stoneage and get rid of the word 'back'.

I'm not pro Batiste. I'm just anti Rummsfeld. Batiste is also of the 'failure is not an option' approach, and I still have no idea what that means as either a strategy or a sentence. He just thinks we should move the country to a world war II type footing, institute a draft, recind all tax cuts and dig in.

But, he thinks that's what you'd need to do to have any hope of winning, and I agree, although as you all know that's not what I want.

And he thinks it's immoral to expect the volunteer army and their fmilies to do %100 percent of the sacrificing, and I agree there, too.

And he thinks Rummy is an incompetant son of a bitch, and I agreee with that, too.