DEAD HORSE

Evidence that the path to success for Iraq's new president, Ghazi al-Yawar, lies in opposing the Bush administration's bungled mess comes in this quote related in a New York Times story:

"I completely disagree with those who see a need to decide the matter through military action," the president told the daily Al Qabas. "The coalition's handling of this crisis is wrong. It's like someone who shoots at his horse's head just because a fly has landed on it. The fly escapes and the horse is dead."