It appears only one UK or US politician has survived the last few months with his integrity enhanced - Robin Cook: consider this article to this one about Rumsfeld's view that facts always change - jeese, Donnie...if they change they are either not facts or you don't know enough enough of them.

I wonder when someone is going to point out in a way that the US public gets that the Chicago School of Warfare has failed. We were told in March that Iraq and North Korea could have been tackled at the same time. Now Iraq requires so much energy that sending a handful of marines to Liberia to intervene against machetes is difficult. Makes me think of the line that ended Senator McCarthy witch hunts - "have you no shame?"