Kissing Butt and Taking Names

Recently, Secretary of State Condolezza Rice has taken a very vocal and public tour of Europe. Now, this is they type of trip that a Secretary of State would take anyways, just to meet the diplomats that he or she will be dealing with in the future. In this case however, it smells more like an ass kissing mission. We're apologizing to Europe for not including them in our war. We're kissing and making up. Even Sec. Rumsfeld is getting into the act with a trip to France of all places. He's trying to encourage other countries to help out in Iraq. It now seems bad that we're asking for help in Iraq from other countries. It makes the US look weak and the situation seem out of control. The sad part though, is that these European countries will have nothing to do with Iraq. We've already taken over the country. Saddam Hussein is already out of power. A new government is already being formed, and still Europe sits idly buy and does nothing while complaining. Maybe it's because they feel they won't have as much control over what they'll be doing and such, but tough for them, they weren't in on the original invasion, why they should they received the credit and spoils now. It's as if France, Germany and Russia are all saying "You're going about this all wrong, but we're not going to help you out of it, it's your mess to clean up." So be it. We don't have a choice in the matter now, the situation must be resolved, one way or another.