IT'S NOT A PLAN, REALLY, IT'S JUST "COMMON IDEAS" (and that last part is a quote): Berlin's Tagesspiegel notes that Schroeder has backed away somewhat from the French-German plans for a U.N. peace-keeping troop "invasion" of Iraq, codename "Mirage," discussed in a Spiegel article on Friday (and in my blog that evening). I suppose we'll have to wait until Schroeder's speech in Parliament on Thursday to find out what's really going on.