Kat, I would be delighted to be wrong. However, US elections are not debates about issues. They are markets between competing products in which substance matters very little and presentation is far more important. The election of Ronald Reagan twenty years ago should have woken us all up to that. Halliburton, Texas Instruments, Microsoft et al will not lose money on this war. You, the ordinary taxpayer, will have to foot the bill - along with us in Europe. The budget deficit will rise, inflation will rise and unemployment will rise in the US. These ought to be "the issues". They won't be. The issue will be who can muster the resources needed to win a US election. Donald Duck could do it if he had the resources available to George Bush. I fear he will win (indeed has already won) easily.