Cliff Notes are small booklets which contain a kind of "reader's digest condensed version" or synopsis of usually the Classics, for students to cram when they've not slogged through the real thing.*bg*

To keep it even more succint:

Daddy Bush wielded a big club. Didn't follow through with his swing. Saddam continued.

Clinton followed through on his schwing, but it was a different sort of "club."

Then, along came Baby Bush, strings attached to his handlers, Cheney and Rumsveld (sp) who plan to follow through where Daddy Bush left off, though one doubts that will satisfy their megolomania.

If one follows the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series which offer different endings, choices might include:

Conclusions:

1) the world goes to hell in a handbasket
2) Cheney et all get found out, slapped down, made to toe the line and lay off
3) Saddam opens the doors and destroys all of his WMDs, making Cheney et al jobless, as they wouldn't know what to do if peace bit them in the arse
4) people who believe in peace prevail around the world and work it out!