Yankee Stay Home

A specter is haunting europe. An erratic foreign leader, bellicose in his rhetoric, directing a powerful army, spending freely on new weapons, is thumbing his nose at the international community and raising the chance of war in the Middle East. Step forward George W. Bush. That's how the U.S. President wants the world to see Saddam Hussein. But it's what a lot of U.S. allies are saying, or muttering, about Bush himself.

This week Vice President Dick Cheney starts in London before flying to 11 countries in the Middle East to present the American view of the terror war's...