BEWARE THE LAME DUCK PRESIDENT

Once upon a time I wanted to be a cartoonist. I remember drawing a cartoon of US president George Bush Snr, with a duck-bill mouth and wings, flying over the head of Saddam Hussein and dropping bombs on him (while Saddam gave him the finger).

At the time, Bush had already lost the election to Bill Clinton, but was still in charge of the White House. During these last few months in office, Bush Snr literally had nothing to lose. So he got some of his own back by dropping bombs on Iraq, despite considerable international objections.

Now imagine if Bush Jnr loses the election next week. He will still have quite a few months to do whatever he likes, without much serious fear of recrimination from fellow Skull-and-Boner John Kerry. So what will he do?

How about bombing Iran? Hell, why wait till next week?