meanwhile, back in the increasingly handbasketed real world...
the times story begins,
"President Bush prepared the country tonight for possibly imminent military action against Iraq, declaring that Saddam Hussein posed a direct threat to the security of the United States and insisting "we don't need anybody's permission" to defend the country."
and goes on from there. why is he so arrogant? what's wrong with him? what's wrong with _us_?