Superman Charlie Wilson, played by Tom Hanks, is a congressman from Texas.  He is depicted in this fantasy flick "Charlie Wilson's War" as a hard drinking patriot, who stops at nothing to help overthrow those meddlesome Russians out of Afghanistan.

As this film focuses early on one of those elegant Texas mansions, we meet an extremely wealthy Texas lady.  At the lavish party setting, she is delighted to show Charlie Wilson around her mansion.  Julia Roberts, playing the Texas lady, is stunning.  They glide up the ornate staircase to her bedroom, one of 14 in the mansion, she boasts with a lyrical laugh.

The décor of the bedroom is high style, but her design on Wilson's body propels them into a rapid sexual interlude.

After all, she is throwing a well attended party and she mustn't let their sexual appetites allow them to be impolite and ignore all those other hard drinking guests.

The Iraqis finally settle down and select new leaders and as America's Secretaries of State and Defense lounge comfortably in the Green Zone, the new vice president of Iraq's sister and her one bodyguard are mowed down on a Baghdad street by a shower of bullets. This only a few weeks after his brother was slain.

Young men and women attending Baghdad University, who remember a time when students could hang out together at the cinema or a café, now must look over their shoulders in fear of self-appointed and armed "Morality Police" who will imprison, beat, and maybe even kill them for fraternizing in public.

Is this what freedom looks like?

This is frightening on many fronts:

KABUL, Afghanistan Mar 19, 2006 (AP)-- An Afghan man is being prosecuted in a Kabul court and could be sentenced to death on a charge of converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under this country's Islamic laws, a judge said Sunday.

The trial is believed to be the first of its kind in Afghanistan and highlights a struggle between religious conservatives and reformists over what shape Islam should take here four years after the ouster of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime.

First, I'm concerned that the religious right in this country will try to match this hysteria by implementing a like sensibility in their newly aquired court system.

Secondly, is this the kind of democracy that BushCo. has spent three years, thousands of lives and trillions of dollars exporting to the middle east?

Finally, today, we hear this from the Screw-up-In-Chief:

CLEVELAND - President Bush on Monday cited progress in stabilizing an insurgent stronghold in northern Iraq, saying he has "confidence in our strategy" and critics should look beyond the images of violence to see clear signs of progress.

Worst. President. Ever.