Lindy, you have to realize Bush is committed and has the military poised to conduct war against Iraq.

Without this conflict our military is simply all dressed up with no place to go.

To not war at this point would be disasterous for the morale of the military and all the ardent supporters that are sooo looking forward to the CNN coverage.

Your only course is to pray along with Bush, as his former speech-writer suggests in his book.

Afun read is conservative author David Frum's new book, The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush.

Frum is the White House speech writer who was axed after his wife, fellow conservative pundit denizen Danielle Crittenden, circulated an e-mail boasting to all and sundry about it was her hubby, David, who had penned the immortal turn of phrase "Axis of Evil" for the Preznit's first State of the Union address.

Frum tells us he was witness to an unbelievably disturbing display of lunacy at the uppermost levels of global power.

He paints a picture of Bush - stalking the White House halls at night, brooding over what his mother thinks of him, angrily snapping at adults who say "damn," or eat junk food, forcing subordinates into Bible study, insisting on a constant litany of prayer - as a man in the midst of a slow-motion mental collapse. And making things inestimably worse, he is surrounded by toadies and yes-men, idiots all, who drop to their knees and bark at the moon right along with him.

According to Frum, Bush is steeped in a "culture of Evangelicalism" -great thing for a dude that commands the most destructive arsenal the world has ever known. Even more disturbing, Bush believes intensely that he was put in this position of awesome authority by GOD for some ill-defined higher purpose.

I will leave you to contemplate the possibilities on your own.

Basically, if Frum is to be believed, the most powerful nation on the planet has been hijacked by a bunch of mentally retarded religious fanatics and bloodthirsty thugs who just stepped out of Stanley Kubrick's worst nightmare.

The Nixon and Reagan regimes both pale in comparison to the wide-awake nightmare that is the administration of George Duhbya Bush.

And all of this comes from a die-hard Republican and ADMIRER of Bush, he is quoted as saying " I'm telling you, the more I got to know Bush, the more I got to like him!"

Can't wait to see what Bush's enemies write about him!

Publius