WAIT AND SEE

According to the state-controlled Iraqi News Agency (INA), earlier this month Iraq's cities "were the scene of crowded spontaneous marches as the masses expressed their happiness over the fall of the criminal Bush in the US presidential election". These "spontaneous" celebrations were, of course, simply an ordered and official reflection of President Saddam Hussein's pleasure over President Bush's election defeat. Not that the Iraqi president knows much about election processes, other than the particular variety his regime has engineered over the past years.