Is it just me, or is anyone else even slightly worried that the leader of the free world, with the name “Bush,” spends five sweaty summer weeks “clearing brush” in Central Texas? While the Baghdad Mayor is ejected in broad daylight by armed thugs, Bush is having his “High Noon” moments doing backyard weed-killing. Isn’t this a form of ecological genocide, like trying to eradicate crabgrass from Maryland in August? Either the OpEd commentators should address this bizarre psycho-pathology, or the news editors should be willing to call this murderous rampage what it is: “Bush on Bush” violence.

August 10, 2005 NYTimes.com

No End in Sight in Iraq

By BOB HERBERT