The affair has kind of left me in admiration of the former President's reflexes and relative calm through the whole thing.

As for the Iraqi journalist, I can't help wondering, along with everybody else, where his heroism was during the Saddam regime. In other words, his actions reveal that whatever else Iraq has been through, it is currently attempting to simulate a country of laws and people are willing to test that in a climate with way less fear of government (theirs OR ours) than formerly.

So can one be brazen AND cowardly? this is what I'm asking.