Greetings loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has been quick preoccupied today and unable to blog much. He did, however, happen to take a break to catch up on the news and various blogs. He wanted to write something concerning the US decision to only allow contractors from countries allied to the US in Iraq to bid on Iraqi reconstruction contracts. He read some other bloggers and decided to direct his minions to Gregg Easterbrook. Choice line: Are France and Germany so pathetic now that their contractors must receive handouts from American taxpayers?

Carry on.