Wild acts in an election circus

THAT Iraq has become the main hot topic of the US presidential election can be seen in how it continues to dominate the Bush-Kerry debates, replacing the economy as the traditional topic to determine voter preference. 

Sensing this, the Bush team moved quickly to interpret recent negative developments concerning Iraq as positive. Given the nature of these developments, including the conclusive finding of the Iraq Survey Group that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capability at least since 1991, political spin has been stretched to incredible and incredulous lengths.