She goes on in like vein:

"On the illicit rush to war, W. ne regrette rien. He reiterated a rhetorical sop to those who yearn for a scintilla of remorse, telling The Times of London that his gunslinging talk made him seem like a Òguy really anxious for war,Ó and that phrases like Òdead or aliveÓ and Òbring them onÓ Òindicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace.Ó

The Bushes have a hard time with the connective tissue between words and actions. In this case, the words, while dime-store Western, were not the problem. The actions were the problem. W. was really anxious for war. He felt that if he could change Middle East history, he could jump out of his fatherÕs shadow forever.

A Democratic lawmaker who saw the president in the Oval Office recently and urged him to bring the troops home from Iraq quickly recounted that W. got a stony look and replied that 41 had abandoned the Iraqis and thousands got slaughtered. ÒI will never do that to them,Ó 43 said.

Sounds like Oedipal dŽjˆ vu all over again."