Again we have the inflation of the mental capacity of George W. Bush. His entire adult life has been marked by criminality and incompetence: military desertion, insider trading, crony business deals, election theft, enabling the September 11, 2001 attacks, lying the country into war, enabling the destruction and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, torture, kidnapping, denial of due process, and the treasonous exposure of an intelligence officer.

But somehow he is anointed with a madness about Iran, a country he barely knows to exist, and probably couldn't find on a map. The real madness of George W. Bush is the fear of being held responsible for his crimes, and spending the rest of his days in a well-deserved prison cell.

So the succession of wars is a Ponzi scheme, meant to provide cover for previous crimes, listed above. Will the nation fall for it again? It all depends on the enabling he gets from the mass communications media. A surefire way to divert attention is to change the subject from his criminality to an argument over whether he is mad or not.

The state of mind of George W. Bush should not be our main concern. If he is truly "mad," then everyone around him is equally "mad." Mad as foxes.

The focus should be on his criminality.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. That's the ticket. If you're really afraid of the Bush crime family it's schemes are easier to pull off.

Or you can take a different approach. Don't be afraid. Don't even be outraged, though you can still pay attention. Just be determined and persistent. We are not powerless in this predicament. The Bush crime family is made up of weaklings, moral imbeciles who have feet of clay. When the glue that holds this band together starts to melt, the gang will turn on itself. We can help in this process.

We of the human species, the supposedly most intelligent of creatures, the top of the food chain. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!

If we, the human species, cannot overcome this little band of sociopaths, then we don't deserve to be at the top of the food chain, and won't be for long. We'll have a lot more to be afraid of than the Bush crime family.

The dissent among the "hawks" may be the undoing of the entire Bush criminal operation. The path is simple.

First, it has to be recognized that the Bush regime is first, last, and always a criminal operation. As such, everything this regime plans, promotes, and executes is criminal in nature. Thus, the "Surge" is a plan with criminal intent. The question, in the immortal words of that great sage Robert Wagner ("It takes a thief"), is where's the scam?

The scam is pretty easy to figure out. The "Surge" keeps the momentum alive for Invading Iran. Like the invasion of Iraq, it would not be for any reason of necessity or protection from threat. Even stealing the oil, though a fringe benefit, would not be the main reason.

The purpose for invading Iran is for the Bush crime family to cover its trail. It's the next phase of a planetary Ponzi scheme. If the invasion and occupation of Iraq, euphemistically known as the "Iraq war," fails, then the momentum of criminality of this regime starts to flow in reverse. The lies, the no-bid contracts, the missing billions of dollars, the killing of journalists, and the myriad of crimes that we only suspect will become center stage.

Like a snowball, the criminal negligence before and afte Hurricane Katrina, the criminal negligence before and after September 11, 2001, the elections of 2000 and 2004, the involvement with Jack Abramoff, the involvement with Tom DeLay, the Energy Task Force, and on and on and on.

And what really happened to Osama bin Laden?

Bush and his fellow gang members fear greatly the loss and/or reversal of momentum that will likely bring the long arm of the law reaching for them. So they must have their "Surge." They must have their invasion.

Ah, the irony of it all. The Bush crime family. They "swiftboated" McCain before the term swiftboating was part of our vocabulary. Now he controls their destiny. I have never cared much for John McCain, but right now I wouldn't mind being in his shoes, for a while at least.