ry goodness, and "who are against us"? -- as if no other evils or horrors existed on earth to compel the attention of human beings?  
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The comic-book aspect became even more pronounced when the President turned himself into a sort of real life action figure, donning a pilot's suit and landing on the deck of the <i>USS Abraham Lincoln</i> to declare success in the Iraq war (though in his National Guard service, in which he was trained as a pilot, he was grounded for failing to show up for a physical