Robert Fisk's headline article in Britain's Independent captured instantly the futility of Bush's chasing around the world generating chaos, as his ratings in the U.S. slip lower almost every day.

"Reality in Mideast bears no relation to Bush's Vision" was the headline preceding Fisk's article that appeared in the Sunday, January 20 Seattle Times.

Fisk wrote:  "Bush ... confronts a Middle East that bears no relation to the policies of his administration nor the warning that he has been relaying constantly to the kings and emirs and oligarchs of the Gulf: that Iran rather than Israel is their enemy.

"He even received a gold `order of merit.'