I was listening to a spokesman for the regime running Iraq at present, on BBC radio.

He was talking about the great handover of power to a new Iraqi government to be appointed by his boss, and flannelling when the awkward questions came up about what kind of power it would have, and who would be pulling the strings. He even at one point said that "all" Iraqis were behind the Coalition Administration. Seriously crazy talk.

It was exactly like the kind of thing you'd hear from the same kind of guys back in Vietnam days, talking about the latest "government" they were setting up in Saigon.