"Shamelessness Is an American Value" From today's New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/international/middleeast/18COUN.html?ex=1080190800&en=3214ed4da4292de4&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE Chief U.S. Administrator Paul Bremer showed the Iraqi provisional authority members that when it comes to irony the Bush Administration is hard to beat. "In a morning meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Bremer warned the Iraqi leaders that they risked isolating themselves and their country if they continued to snub the United Nations." Not reported is that Bremer next went on to stress the importance of allowing the individual with the most votes to govern the future Iraqi government and the necessity of staying focused in the War on Terror and not getting sidetracked by peripheral matters.