I wish you hateful people would stop and notice how I stick to the facts at hand and never drop to the gutter by going completely off topic like you 4 stooges do when the facts go against your misinformed opinions.

In today's newspapers - nationwide:

Conrad Black, a British citizen and member of the House of Lords who is a proprietor of many newspapers, including the Telegraph of London and the Sun-Times of Chicago. In a recent London speech to the Centre for Policy Studies, he noted that the United States, far from being the ``trigger-happy, hip-shooting country'' of European caricature, scarcely responded to the killing of dozens of U.S. servicemen at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and on the USS Cole in Yemen. ``And when two of its embassies in Africa were virtually destroyed, President's Clinton's response consisted of rearranging some rocks in Afghanistan and blowing the roof off a Sudanese aspirin factory in the middle of the night.''

Black says that three of the greatest strategic errors of modern times--Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the Soviet refusal of postwar U.S. aid in exchange for liberality in Eastern Europe--involved underestimating the dangers of provoking America.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed, one of the authors of the fourth great error, the Sept. 11 attacks, may have belatedly understood that danger when, before dawn last Saturday, he stood in his underwear, facing the drawn guns of the men who told him America would like to ask him some questions.

Tick, tick, tick....here we come.