That was Ted Turner, speaking about the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He continued: "If you started wars with everyone you don't like, well good God, we would all be at war with everybody." So reports Editor & Publisher on Turner's appearance "before a group of journalists and international policy leaders at Reuters' offices in New York."

But, Turner went much further than most elite men with money to spare, and the will to spare it, would be willing to go, when speaking of political matters:

When asked about the possibility that the next U.N. secretary general might be a woman, Turner went a step further, advocating that men should be barred from public office for a hundred years in every part of the world.

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As for women: "If we had women holding all the public offices, the amount of money on the military would be immediately cut way back and more would be spent on healthcare and education," Turner said. "There wouldn't be lack of family planning or birth control if the women ran things."

Of course, Turner did suggest, as well, that we all try to draft Al Gore [who is not a woman] for the 2008 presidential election, but even Lyssa Strada cannot argue with such impeccable logic.