Michael Perelman wrote: > Israel's move was brilliant. If only Rumsfeld had dropped a few bombs on the > first > day & declared that the US had destroyed all traces of the WMDs, the US > public might > well have believed it. Oh, well, we will do better next time.
but the Bushies _believed_ that they were sparking an instant replay of Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution." (or was it a "velvet fog"? I forget...) Ideology trumps intelligence (in both main senses of that word). -- JD
