"Progress"

"Good news! On Thursday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, who recently called for Israel to be wiped off the map, moderated his position. In a spirit of statesmanlike compromise, he now wants Israel wiped off the map of the Middle East and wiped on to the map of Europe.

"Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces," Ahmadinejad told Iranian TV viewers. "Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true," he added sportingly, "if European countries claim that they have killed Jews in World War II, why don't they provide the Zionist regime with a piece of Europe? Germany and Austria can provide the regime with two or three provinces for this regime to establish itself, and the issue will be resolved. You offer part of Europe, and we will support it."

Big of you. It's the perfect solution to the "Middle East peace process": out of sight, out of mind. And given that Ahmadinejad's out of his mind, we're already halfway there.

So let's see: We have a Holocaust denier who wants to relocate an entire nation to another continent, and he happens to be head of the world's newest nuclear state. (They're not 100 percent fully-fledged operational, but happily for them they can drag out the pseudo-negotiations with the European Union until they are. And Washington certainly won't do anything, because after all if we're not 100 percent certain they've got WMD -- which we won't be until there's a big smoking crater live on CNN one afternoon -- it would be just another Bushitlerburton lie to get us into another war for oil, right?)"

In 1956 when the Leonidas was discharged from the Army he worked in the oilfields of southern California (it was not Kalifornia yet then) for Continental Oil Co. (now Conoco Philips). A fellow worker was a WW II veteran from the European theatre. He had pictures that he had taken of a concentration camp that his unit had "liberated" in 1945. For the information of Mr. Ahmadinejad, the Jew victims of Germany's collectivists were not killed in "furnaces". They were killed in GAS CHAMBERS. Their bodies were disposed of in FURNACES. For those of you who are products of government "schools" the acronym "NAZI" stands for: National SOCIALIST German Workers Party.