Bloody reality bears no relation to the delusions of this president

BEIRUT (The Independent) -- Twixt silken sheets -- in a bedroom whose walls are also covered in silk -- and in the very palace of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, President George Bush awakes this morning (Wednesday) to confront a Middle East which bears no relation to the policies of his administration nor the warning which he has been relaying constantly to the kings and emirs and oligarchs of the (Persian) Gulf: that Iran rather than Israel is their enemy.