Camille Paglia's articles are the intellectual equivalent of a spoiled bear rummaging an ill-secured trash bin. On reading one of her columns, I get a visual image of a lot of well-chewed garbage strewn across a parking lot. I find it odd that Salon has chosen to rehabilitate this particular bear. I would only add that the odds of doing so are against you.

The author misses the point. Bush is a dangerous, and useful, idiot. The end result of the Iraq war and the general destabilization of the regions adjacent and nearby Iraq will be to transfer the national wealth of the people of the United States and her allies to the coffers and bottom lines of global armament providers and operators. Widespread death and destruction is simply a byproduct of this transfer.

Poor people the world over will be offered a place of privilige in the new Empire created by these entities for submitting themselves to participate in this new paradigm. Those of us who oppose war and it's sponsors will find ourselves on thinner ice as global war heats up.

Millions of us marched on February 15, 2003, in the full knowledge that the Bush administration was going to use the Iraq adventure to obfuscate and solidify the greatest transfer of wealth from the general citizenry to the owning class that has ever been seen. We were deliberately brushed off and ignored by the general media and most elected officials. Arrogant ignorance ruled the day, and apparently still does.

Looked at as a "smash and grab" of the U.S. Treasury, the Iraq war is a stunning success. It was not a mistake, and the coming war in Iran won't be a mistake. War planners have been quietly placing naval commanders in charge of the next war, as it will be fought in large part from expensive missle platforms at sea. Every time a tomahawk missle goes up, Lockheed Martin puts another cool million in it's pocket. Note to the author: Wake up! This war was well planned to never end.

The baby elephant lives in a veal harness, is forcefed pablum, and has it's memory erased once every 24 hours.

Not much chance of it actually getting up to vote.