Scaaaaary!

Georgie Anne Geyer, a journalist of impeccable credentials and not exactly a liberal, is out with a sobering column about the current situation in the Middle East.

The piece includes this passing, but frightening, note about President Bush:

Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!" He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of "our country's destiny."