I think I may have driven teribus into a nervous collapse, by rebutting his lengthy lectures with approximately one tenth the time and verbosity he generally employs.

If so, I am stricken with remorse...

It will indeed be odd if the Americans threw out one secularly-inclined Sunni leader (Saddam) only to install another against the will of the Shiite majority. The Iranians are also Shiites. The plot thickens by the day. Osama Bin Laden and the Wahabbi fanatics in Saudi Arabia must be utterly ecstatic over the downfall of Saddam and the whole general situation that is unfolding. It is all to their advantage.

- LH