If there is an 'art' to war, as Sun Tzu averred millennia ago, then the Bush-Blair catastrophic artwork in Iraq calls to mind John Ruskin's comments on the sculpture of the Earl of Dudley's dog Bashaw in the V&A Museum: "The most perfectly and roundly ill-done thing which as yet in my whole life I ever saw produced in art. It showed that the persons who produced it had seen everything, and practiced everything; and misunderstood everything they saw, and misapplied everything they did." It was Bush's highly experienced 'dream team' of Cheney, Rumsfeld, and even Powell who gave us this war, men who knew everything and understood nothing. Blair let Bush get away with calling the American invaders and occupiers a "coalition force." Alas, the people of the US and the UK will pay for this tragic mistake by the Decider and his buddy well beyond my lifetime. Would that Bush and Blair had only sculpted a dog rather than loosed the dogs of civil war and chaos.
Percy Slogthrop, Saukville, Wisconsin, USA