The French have stopped complaining about our Iraqi campaign only long enough to demand their share of postwar reconstruction. Dick Cheney shouldn’t worry if the citizens of Baghdad give any indication. It’s we Americans they admire and emulate the most. Only minutes after the marines toppled a statue of Saddam, with buildings burning all around, looters took to the streets and scurried home with leather chairs and desktop computers. Just like Tampa Bay after the Super Bowl.

And while our ground forces may have found torture chambers, coalition uniforms and even the odd POW, what has eluded them is any evidence of weapons of mass destruction. The White House suggests that the regime smuggled its most deadly assets into Syria, including nerve gas, bio toxins and Dixie Chicks Cds.