My side hurts. Tapped says we need help in Iraq with troops from countries such as .... France.

A moral pygmy like Rep. Bob Ney might be pleased he got french fries banned from the House cafeteria, but Tapped bets your average soldier sweating it out in Tikrit right now would trade Ney's infantile sense of self-satisfaction for a brigade or two of French infantry.

A brigade or two of French infantry? The same French who are apparently dying by the thousands because the temperature is about 104 degrees?

Tomorrow's forecast for Baghdad: 114 degrees.

King Arthur to Black Knight: What are you going to do? Bleed on me?