"No brain, no effect!"? Or--- gasp--- could it be there just isn't that much that worries them?"

Yep. You've answered your own question, Susan.

Somewhere I read-or heard- that these days Bush is sleeping poorly and during the day is distracted and incommunicative. I was glad to hear it, because it would imply that this whole war thing is affecting him, that he does have an understanding of what he has created, at least to some extent. Then I hear - or read- that, No, he is sunny as ever.

I suspect that if Bush were to quote "War is Hell", he'd say it with a smile.