Okay, let's get all of this straight.

On the eve of war, The U.S. has done such a good job of maintaining allied support that Canada- Canada!- hates us now.

In fact, we're so desperate for support that we've taken to bullying Mexico- Mexico- into supporting us (and not very well, I might add).

And a country we're willing to pay $15 billion dollars ($30? The number keeps on changing everytime I read about it) to host our troops, that being Turkey, of course, won't even back us.

We do, however, have Albania backing us.

Of course, it would all help a bit if we were better at the diplomacy game to begin with. It would, for instance, help if anyone in the U.S. government were to actually visit other countries instead of making others come here. Sign of respect and all that. Not happening (and no, I don't have a fancy link for the comment, I've just read it in a few columns and it seems pretty well duh evident). Nor, does it seem worth the government's time to even pronounce the names of people we're engaged with correctly.

Nor does it help if it turns out we're bugging all of our fellow delegates at the U.N.

Doesn't matter, right? We still know what Saddam has and we know what he's up to and it's the world's problem they just don't get it.

Oops. Turns out we made up a lot of the stuff about Saddam trying to get Nuclear Weapons.

And the State Department? They can't be making anything up, can they? Wrong about that too. In his resignation letter, long-time diplomat John Brady Kiesling states that: … we have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic manipulation of American opinion, since the war in Vietnam.

And the army? We can trust them. Except for the fact, the White House doesn't. Claims by one of the Chiefs of Staff about hundreds of thousands of troops having to be used to mollify a post-war Iraq? Pshaw.

But wait. What about the U.N. Inspectors? They should be able to find something, wouldn't they? Well, they would, except for the fact that we either aren't giving it up or we really don't have that much.

Oh, and that call for making Iraq a beachhead for democracy in the Middle East? Oops, That whole crazy stability thing. Oh, and by the way, out of all the countries we've initiated "regime change" over the past century, "only five produced democracies; and of the five unilateral actions, only one produced a democracy -- Panama."

One more thing. Guess whose gonna be getting all those contracts to rebuild the Iraqi oil fields? Wow, how about that. It's Dick Cheney's old company Halilburton. Quelle surprise.

Okay, so I was ambivelant about the war. Maybe at times pro-war. But right now, it's looking like we're about to make the biggest mistake this side of David Caruso leaving NYPD Blue. A drafting Ryan Leaf over Peyton Manning kind of mistake. A Michael Jackson still admitting to having little boys sleep over in his bedroom kind of mistake.

I might not be marching in the streets, but God help us all. I gotta bad feeling about this.