I have to disagree with that last sentence Amos. Many of the world's great crazies were highly intelligent, and all the more dangerous for that.

GeeDub is a man with more cunning than intelligence, who has got himself in a lose/lose situation. He must pull out of Iraq if he wants to regain any credibility with the rest of the world, but he can't pull out because civil war would result, culminating in rule by Ayatollahs whose policies would be directly counter to US interests.

He has, by his own dumb actions, placed his arse in a huge wringer, and the only thing that surprises me about that, is the lack of volunteers to turn the handle.

Don T.