MER - US President is 'Intellectually Backward'

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> "[George W.] Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy. Pity the man who relies on Rumsfeld, Cheney and Rice for counsel."<br><br>MP Gerald Kaufman, in London's Spectator, in August 2002.<br><br><br>(quoted in Prudent column, Washington Times, 17 August 2002) </body>