Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!

Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!

Maybe Howard Dean could learn from French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin's example and congratulate Bush and Blair through gnashing teeth.

"He was forced to admit in Le Figaro that France knew nothing of the nine months of secret negotiations.

"We were not kept informed," M de Villepin said. His disclosure underlined the continuing mistrust in relations between the English-speaking powers and France, which made much of its opposition to war in Iraq.

M de Villepin sought to gloss over the differences, describing the relationship as one of "extremely active and fertile co-operation".

His words contradicted those of Michele Alliot-Marie, defence minister, who claimed on Sunday that France was "perfectly informed of the negotiations" several months ago."


Howard Dean could also learn a thing or two from the French Defense minister, "Bizarrely, Mme Alliot-Marie denied there was any discrepancy between the two accounts, suggesting the foreign ministry was not as involved as her department."