Dateline: Brussels, Belgium

(1) Although he's not particular popular with his own party it's looks like Arizona Senator John McCain has secured the nomination as the Republican candidate to be the next president of the United States. That is, if George Bush and Dick Cheney are willing to step down. Meanwhile, McCain continues to be the Bush clone I predicted he would be and a speech he made in early February clearly qualifies him for the cast of Stanley Kubrick's >i>Dr. Strangelove.American General Curtis LaMay also comes to mind, LaMay wanted to nuke Vietnam and China. Here's what McCain is quoted as saying: 'There's going to be other wars. ...We will never surrender but there will be other wars.' He goes on, 'I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed-tops!' So much for.....