I feel I write better columns when I'm full of righteous indignation, which I was not yesterday. Yesterday I was reaching, just writing because I wanted to write something. Today, however, the coalition of the unwilling has angered me, and so I shall roast them to the best of my ability.

Remember the period just before Gulf War II began, when France and Russia, among others, were clamoring for the lifting of economic sanctions against Iraq, saying that it was only hurting innocent Iraqi citizens? Well now that Saddam is out of power, Bush has suggested that those sanctions should be lifted as soon as possible. Guess who feels that that would be premature? The French and Russian governments. What is up with these people? They said that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, they said that Saddam wasn't such a bad guy, they said a lot of crap. Now that the war is over and Saddam is gone, all of the sudden they want to continue policies that, by their own admission, hurt the innocent Iraqi civilians. I can only imagine that perhaps they are scared of the stories about their dealing with Saddam that might come out if these sactions are lifted, or perhaps they simply have not had a chance to sink their economic claws into Iraq, and realize that if the sanctions are lifted now they won't be able to make as much money off the innocent Iraqi civilians as they could if the sanctions are lifted after the UN gets more involved. Either way, I no longer trust either of those governments. I'm sure the average Russian citizen has no problem with the US, but Putin has shown more and more that he's just a thug grasping for power. The French I'm not so sure about. Mostly their hypocrisy and underhanded deals lead me to the belief that we should wash our hands of normal relations with this "ally." I'm not saying we should call them enemies, but I don't think we can call France a friend anymore.