A couple weeks ago, I linked to Pottery Barn's objection that Powell's description of "you break it, you own it" as an illustration of the US attitude to Iraq: "This is very, very far from a policy of ours," said Leigh Oshirak, public relations director for the brand, owned by Williams-Sonoma Inc. of San Francisco. "In the rare instance that something is broken in the store, it's written off as a loss. I argued then that the real pottery barn policy - you break it, it's written off - may be a more apt description of the Bush foreign policy. Today Aaron McGruder strikes a similar theme.