Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog)

Here’s CNN Founder Ted Turner on Monday:

Media mogul Ted Turner said Monday that Iraq is no better off following the U.S.-led invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein than it was before the war.

The philanthropist and founder of CNN also said the United States and Russia still have thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at each other on a “hair trigger,” and he was afraid someone could make the mistake to launch them, including President Bush.

“You have to question … the president on a lot of decisions he’s made,” Turner said in a lecture at Kansas State University. “He might just think launching those weapons would be a good thing to do. … He thought Iraq was.”

To taste freedom and be granted the chance to defend it versus a trip into the acid vat or the paper shredder. Which will it be, Ted? The President is going to flip out one afternoon and start firing nukes?

He’s coordinating this stuff with Howard Dean.

This was Ted Tuner at dinner last Thursday:

But the CNN founder went further at a dinner Thursday night, saying the DMZ [between North and South Korea], which is 2 1/2 miles wide and 155 miles long, should also be declared a World Heritage Site, which would ensure that dozens of species unique to the area are preserved along with its history. The DMZ is about one-quarter the size of Yellowstone Park and goes from seashore to seashore, through river valleys and across mountains.

“The DMZ needs to be designated as a World Heritage Site and as a World Peace Park site because we’ve got to preserve it from development,” Turner said. “Over the last 50 years, nobody’s been in there and the birds and animals and trees and bushes and flowers” have flourished, he added.

So Ted professes not to trust President Bush, fearing publicly that the President is prone to irrationality, while the weird mogul is perfectly fine with Kim Jong Il, who is a loony.

Ted Turner is not stable.

The French prime minister, the poet Dominique de Villepin, wants the United States to remain in Iraq:

Villepin, interviewed in Paris by CNN, said a badly planned withdrawal could cause chaos in Iraq, “which of course would be disastrous for the whole region.”

The poet does not want a timetable/date certain:

” I think that the timetable should be a global timetable,” he said. “The real timetable is the Iraqi situation.”

In 2003, when he was French foreign minister, the poet was traipsing around Africa begging for no votes on the Security Council. Now he wants us in Iraq and he’s become a self-proclaimed expert on the subject.

I’m glad to have the poet on board the ship with responsible observers and actors. Dean-Pelosi-Murtha, on the other hand, is a ship which is fated to sink.