Once upon a time, there was a profoundly stupid man from an oil family. He rode through college on the family name, managing only to get a business degree. Eventually, he entered politics, again riding on the family name, and managed to become one of the very rarest of presidents that got into office without having a majority of the popular vote. Understanding little domestic policy, and even less foreign policy, he surrounded himself by people afraid of nude statues, oil friends, and business criminals. Alas, without anything to push the public, all he could do was slow damage to the country. Then, one day, terrorists blew up some landmarks. This man was delighted -- it meant he could start attacking other countries. And attack other countries he did. First, Afghanistan, where the head of the terrorists was hanging out. Next, Iraq, which really didn't have anything to do with this group of terrorists, but which was a family tradition. In preparing to attack Iraq, he demanded weapons inspectors go find weapons his dad demanded be banned. After much fuss, weapons inspectors were sent in. They looked, and looked, and didn't find anything. This man really really wanted war though, so he decided that the weapons inspectors wern't that important anyhow. Others in the U.N., including France, got mad that this man would change his mind like this, and do war, but, sadly, they wern't willing to try to stop him. He sent his army to the far-away country of Iraq, destroyed their army, and started raising his flag all over the place, taking it down a bit afterwards, just long enough to show the Iraqis that they were crushed and should feel shame. It didn't take long, with his billions of dollars into research, despite the Iraqis who fought much harder than expected to keep him out. Alas, when the war was completely over, the Iraqis were mad anyhow -- they didn't want the man's people there. Worse, they wanted to set up an even worse government based on barbaric religious laws that would make many people, especially women, much worse off than in old Iraq. What would this man do? Not only that, the man decided to be ungrateful to an old friend who was trying to tell him that he was making a mistake.

What's the end to this story? Time will tell.