[cynicom]

"A 27-year veteran in Congress"

How misleading. He is a veteran of nothing. Gephardt is just another surviving professional politician. Both parties are loaded with them.

[Dutch Boy]

Wasn't the Clinton administration completely cause off guard when India and Pakistan blasted 10 nukes in a short time span? If my memory serves me the were clueless until India detonated the first one followed by several more. Pakistan was soon to follow.