Still, I can't resist noting Henry Steele Bush's history lesson the other day wherein he found in the debates of the American Constitutional Congress an analogy for the "difficulties" faced by Iraqi Shi'ites and Sunnis, who regard each other as stenches in God's nostrils, whom Bush, on a short leash held by neocons, is forcing cobble together a Western-style "constitution."

Our Commando-in-Chief also suggested that we can honor those young servicemen and -women who have been killed or maimed in the course of installing a DC-compliant regime in Mesopotamia only by being willing to add to their number until all the items on his Iraqi to-do list have been checked off . . . and not a minute sooner!