Back on May 16, I used the word schadenfreude in a post (I was very proud of myself) after seeing it in the Washington Post. Now MSNBC has followed suit in this article about France.

For those of you who have no interest in checking the May archives, it means "enjoyment obtained from the trouble of others." If I were the leader of a country that had opined against invading Iraq, and I received Bush's request for assistance, I would be laughing my ass off. Except it's not funny when U.S. soldiers continue to be killed on an almost daily basis because no plan was effectively executed to rebuild Iraq after we bombed the shit out of it.

And I also note that had anyone in the White House been reading my blog they would have known full well that guerilla warfare was the next phase of engagement. I told anyone willing to listen that this war would not end when we said it would. For my loyal six readers, I salute you. What could those dunderheads at the Pentagon be thinking if they don't wake up each morning and say to themselves - Self, I wonder what's outraged Ellen today. I love the fantasy world I live in. Really I do.