"This president has lost contact with reality"

The Empty Character of George W. Bush: "He must be made to change course as water changes course. You build up the banks, and secure the altered direction, so that there is only one way for him to flow. Every other path must be obstructed."...

"A war on terror conceived, as Cheney's experiment has been conceived, as a global war of extermination that ends with the killing of the last terrorist, in fact creates more terrorists than it destroys. A global war on terror means a war to the end of time. It is, in essence, a totalitarian idea.

The global war on terror is a pure product of the mind of Cheney working on the mind of Bush."...

"This president has lost contact with reality, in any ordinary sense of the words 'lost,' 'contact,' and 'reality'."

David Bromwich's thoughts are right on the mark.