Now, as usual, it's a British newspaper-- a decidedly conservative British newspaper exposing the behaviour of the Bushite Regime:

Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.

So, its not that Dubya is the vile treasonous dog that he seems, its that he's just a fucking idiot. But then, that is consistent with our observation of the man, isn't it?

Painful it must be for Republicans, though, to see just how far from the tree this particular rotten apple fell. The old man, George Herbert Walker Bush-- combat veteran of World War II, architect of Gulf War I and its successful conclusion-- was a titan on the world stage compared to his son, the ninny.

“There's a vast difference between the way George H.W. Bush dealt with major challenges, some of the greatest challenges at the end of the 20th century, and effected positive results in my view, and the way we conduct diplomacy today.”

No shit.