Americans have a knack for psychoanalyzing their enemies. There are few histories of WW II or biographies of Hitler that do not go into his alleged psychopathology without ever having met him. But American Presidents are examined more in rationalist terms of: "what were they thinking?" GW Bush, for example, seems devoid of any empathy for the stress physiology imposed on American troops in Iraq-- most being mothers and fathers-- as a result of having been sent to Iraq, all intelligence blind, language deaf and culture dumb. PBS showed a segment recently covering a unit that lost seven troopers in an armored SUV to an IED, killed an innocent taxi driver and had to stand helpless as a large number of women and children were plummeted by shrapnel from a bomb, all in one day. One soldier said that in six hours on and four off they cannot rest, the adrenaline rush never stops. Another complained that they were supposed to go home in six days but were extended to 15 months. He offered to re-up for another 15 months, at no pay, if only Bush would serve at his side. But Bush won't serve now as he avoided doing during the Vietnam War. He is a totally political animal convinced that if in the end he captures Iraq's oil for US Companies by imposing the the PSA law on the Maliki Government, making the refilling of our SUV at $1.50 a gallon possible, all the needless incompetent loses in blood and treasure will be forgiven and forgotten. But there's a new kink in his persistence strategy. There are no troops left for continuing the surge after April 2008. What Bush thinks he has a lot left to use are planes and ships and missiles. So what he plans to do is a 21,000 air sorties attack on Iran to devastate its entire armed forces-- never mind just its nuclear plants-- before he is forced to pull back US troops from Iraq. The reason for this is that while his foreign policy in term #1 was in the service of the neocons, term #2 is in service of the Saudis who fear Iran's growing power. They will build his library as they did his dad's and they will fund his lavish Crawford Texas life as an ex-President. One can only wonder if the legacy of this administration will be, not only one of war criminality in its policies, but one of total moral depravity attributable to the same psychiatric disorders often attributed to the world's most infamous aggressors. Daniel E. Teodoru