If you can make it through the entire document then you are more patient than I. I made it to page 14 and couldn't take anymore of a professor who lowers himself to this. So the President was settling an old score from 1991 and it was all the fault of the dreaded neocons. Nice. Candid essays are good, but I would prefer that my tax dollars go towards the publication of, and work by individuals who write, candid essays of the scholarly variety. The fantasizing in this essay requires no more thought, education, or research than the garbage that I can read at Salon.com or DailyKos.