As Bush's reasons for invading Iraq morph from nukes and other WMDs to taking out Saddam because he helped al Qaida to taking out Saddam because he was a nasty character (especially when we were supporting him) to liberating Iraq to bringing democracy to Iraq to bringing democracy to the larger Middle East, etc, etc, the question must be asked: "Whose president does he think he is, anyway?"
Is he the president of the United States? Or is he the president of Iraq? Or does he think he's the president (ahem) of the world?
By now it is obvious that Iraq posed no threat to us. Yet his loyalty seems firmly with his idealized Iraqis, certainly not with his own people.
Yet no Iraqi wants him for president. Even his taint will damn his candidates, who, as in Afghanistan, will have to resort to registering more potential voters than exist. (Vote early, vote often!)
Certainly the world has spoken a resounding plea to America to get rid of the global menace that is Bush.
And at least half his own country sees his actions as they are, singularly cruel, profoundly dangerous, ultimately seriously maladaptive.
Just whose president is he, anyway?