George Bush has put himself into a very precarious situation, in Iraq. Rumsfeld's words, describing the military victory as a "catastrophic success", are quite accurate, since Shii clerics are stepping in to fill the Saddam power vaccuum. Bush's attemts so far, at installing a pro-west regime, led by Chalabi, etc., have been unsuccessful. Bush may have won the battle for Baghdad, but lost the war of the Middle East, in doing so.