W's speech yesterday was pure fear-mongering

Which is really getting tiresome. And we planned to address some of his nonsense, but we don't have to, because the excellent Juan Cole, someone who actually understands the Middle East, unlike Bush, has dismantled it point-by-point much more thoroughly than we could have. He calls it his "Arguing with Bush" series. And if you're not reading Cole daily, now's a good time to start.