Here they come--America's Drill Team! Out front are the two high-strutting leaders, John McCain and George W, thrusting their drum-major batons and chanting "Drill! Drill! Drill!" Right behind them are the famous Marching Lobbyists of Big Oil, and--look!--prancing alongside are House minority leader John Boehner and the Merry Pranksters of the Republican caucus, doing a precision routine of call and response
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WATCH MY LIPS
It seems like yesterday that the entire BushCheney regime was ridiculing the United Nations, declaring that if that body's security council refused to pass a war resolution against Iraq, the U.S. would attack anyway. They claimed the right to disregard the will of the U.N. whenever they pleased.
But now Iran says it too has the sovereign right to ignore the U.N. and will continue to develop its nuclear capability even if the Security Council formally condemns it. To which Condi Rice said, with a straight face: "The security council is the primary and most important institution of peace and stability and security, and it cannot have its will simply ignored by a member state."