“Madness”,as used by the Brits at least,is meant to suggest mental illness which,all too often,is caused by a brain disorder...a chemical imbalance or structural abnormality of some sort.Osama Obama isn’t “mad”...his brain cells are firing in an entirely normal way.His problem is that he’s a psychopath...utterly devoid of conscience.It’s been suggest by some that Hitler might have had untreated syphilis which,over time,can really scramble the old brain cells.But Osama,like Stalin,Mao,Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers before him,is just plain evil.Evil to the bone.
I think the Brit Woodward may have had in mind was James Donald's character at the end of River Kwai. It was certainly my first thought when I heard his comment.