No obviously Bush isn't to blame for wehat's happened. He'll have to carry the responsibility for whatever happens next, and I don't think any same person would envy him that. It's frightening looking at him though. He just does not look up to it. And I'm not saying that because I disagree with his politics, but because he looks like a like a terrified learner driver at the wheel of a runaway vehicle.

When the nation of Israel was formed, if memory serves, Arabs resident on the land were invited to stay and help build the nation. Many preferred to leave. This is not really the time to get into debates about Palestine and Israel, Amos. But perhaps that sentence needs to be balanced. "Preferred to leave" needs to be put in the context of, for example, what happened at Deir Yassim - and that link is to an account written by an Israeli who grew up in a Zionist family. "Preferred to leave" is the kind of language Milosevic used in relation to Kosovo.