Most Dangerous

It seems that in order to prove his relevance, the endlessly overcompensating Mister Bush has to reassert himself as the most dangerous man in the world.

He's first to the plate with World War III.

Yes, the government of Iran is bad news, and the elected President (in an election where truly moderate candidates were not allowed on the ballot) wants to wipe Israel off the map.

But would he ever do it, knowing we'd flatten his nation? Would the mullahs ever allow it?

What's needed now is diplomacy and general economic pressure, along with some sort of carrot, to engage the Iranian leadership and hopefully keep their populace on our side.

Meanwhile, ex-Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer is leading a $200 million ad campaign to sell unilaterally attacking Iran to America. With Bush hitting the same rhetorical notes he did the last time he hoodwinked us into a mistake, it's looking more and more like he's aiming to bring along that rapture his peeps predict and yearn for.

He's a bullheaded loser cratering in the polls, with only that psychotic base backing him. Meanwhile the war he's bet the house on is looking more and more complicated, with Turkey preparing to invade Iraq to kill Kurds, and the very country with which he's threatening global thermonuclear war being awarded major contracts from Iraq itself.

And with Russia's stern warning a day earlier, it looks as though Bush really would be starting WWIII.

Bush makes the Vietnam War look simple.