British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw spoke in Kuwait on Monday, playing down suggestions that Syria was the next military target for coalition troops. "Don't be silly," he said, "that's entirely up to President Bush to decide, and he's only mentioned Iran, North Korea, and Cuba to Prime Minister Blair and myself."(04/15/03) President Bush and wife Laura are shown here at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland where they visited troops wounded in Iraq on Friday. Bush was inspired by the wounded telling him they hoped to recover quickly so they could rejoin their units. "It makes me almost wish I wouldn't have ducked out of my National Guard duty," he reflected, "but you has to admit it's better to send peoples off to war than to fight in one." (04/12/03) Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien spoke in Canada on Wednesday, lamenting the fact the war had strained relations between Washington and Ottawa. However, Chretien said he would not be calling President Bush to smooth things over since "he is crazy, totally insane. And when the French find someone to be intolerably arrogant, well, that about says it all, oui?" (04/10/03) President Bush spoke in Ireland on Tuesday, urging the nation's feuding factions to come together in a spirit of peace. "You must seize this moment to become a beacon of hope for the world," he said, "or else I'll carpet-bomb your terrorist nation back to the stone age." (04/09/03) Police carry off one of the first U.S. citizens rounded up under an Executive Order signed by President Bush, which allows people diagnosed with SARS to be put in indefinite quarantine. The woman repeatedly shouted she was not sick, but the police were having none of it. "I don't know what her health has to do with it anyway," said one officer. "According to the Order, SARS stands for Seriously Anti-Republican Sentiments. The accused was saying negative things about the president, so what were we supposed to do?" (04/08/03)