Graham Barrett's Why Bush is still the man to beat (The Age 29/11/03) is another sickening example of the left's mendacity and its hatred of President Bush. According to Barrett it's Bush's fault that the "Middle East is an expensive shambles", Bush is always giving different excuses for invading Iraq, "the rise of terrorism [under Bush] has exposed the most dramatic intelligence failure since Pearl Harbour, the US deficit is the biggest in history, several million American jobs have been lost, environmental pollution is worsening, American diplomacy is in tatters and American global popularity is to be found in...