Low Rent Journalism

Midnight Monday: France24 calls the proposed B$622 US 5-year military budget increase ‘over $700 billion!”, and refers to the Army 1st Lieutenant who refuses to ship out to Iraq as a ‘high ranking officer.’ Wow – I've heard of 1LTs who think of themselves as ’high ranking’, but I didn’t know that there were French journos who would agree with them,
especially given the obscurity of the chance that any of these scribblers would hop off the Madonna and Penelope Cruz beat, and get to know anyone remotely connected to the big green machine.
It's a shame. It would make for nice conference for Soviet-American cultural exchange.The Fuse is Lit (No Pasaran!)