Coming on Christmas Day: `Regime Change.'

HIS TELEGRAPHED war on Iraq belongs on a cineplex trailer. ''An obedient son, mopping the floor for his father (1991 clip of fleeing remnants of the Republican Guard) ... a defense secretary trying to annihilate the 1960s (clip of Kent State) ... a secretary of state frozen out in a Cabinet Cold War (clip of a black man being passed by taxi cabs) ... a vice president who has not been seen since the Florida recount (clip of an empty chair) ... a security adviser who could scare Cleopatra Jones out of her Afro (blaxploitation clip of Jones gunning down criminals). (Boston Globe)

Thanks to Evelyn Rosenthal in Somerville, Mass for the link. I think, I hope, that the Vietnam analogy is taken too far.  But we need as much gallows humor as we can get - so bring it on.