For a real stomach-churning read, get The Atlantic Monthly currently on newsstands and read the article cited below. The magnitude of Bush's strategic blunder and its ongoing consequences described in detail. -Eric The Atlantic Monthly | October 2004 Bush's Lost Year By deciding to invade Iraq, the Bush Administration decided not to do many other things: not to reconstruct Afghanistan, not to deal with the threats posed by North Korea and Iran, and not to wage an effective war on terror. An inventory of opportunities lost by James Fallows ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html