Imperial adjectives

Who on Earth could deny that George W. Bush is imperiously stubborn? Stir ignorant and arrogant into that pot and you've got unimaginable disaster. That is, you've got Iraq.

But Bush continues to stay his "on-to-victory" course. To hell with the American people. (This past weekend the Opinion Research Corporation found that support for Bush's handling of the Iraq conflict has decreased to 28 percent from 34 percent in a poll taken October 13-15.) To hell with the generals who disagree with him. To hell with the historians who point out that Iraq is in outright civil war. And now it looks like Il Duce wants to send thousands more troops into the colossal maelstrom. (As of last night, the number of US troops killed in Iraq was 2,950.)

Even Bush's own people say the war/occupation will cost more than $2 billion a week well into next year without taking into account the cost of 20,000 more troops (some estimates say 30,000 more.)

Stubborn and ignorant and arrogant.

The missing adjective is mad.