In the immortal words of Yosemite Sam, of course you know this means war. How did “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” beat my line as the most-quoted? I was the author of the words, “going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You leave a lot of noisy useless baggage behind.” (See “Mad COW and Steve Jobson”, The American Prowler, 1/28/03. I repeated it on “Hardball with Chris Matthews a couple of nights later). It’s gone around the world about twelve times. I’ve gotten “hooah” e-mails about it from carrier captains in the Persian Gulf, and it’s now on t-shirts being sold at military exchanges.

That line has been mis-attributed to everyone from Schwartzkopf to Big Dog to Perot, but it belongs to moi.