Loony bin:

Who would Jesus kill? Evangelical "man of God" Jimmy Swaggert--whose sexual rap sheet includes an arrest for soliciting a prostitute and an admitted porn addiction--wants gays dead. In a recent broadcast he said: "I'm trying to find the correct name for it ... this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. ... I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died."

Wild guess: The prez, discussing a CIA report that stated Iraq risks falling into a civil war, told Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, "The CIA laid out several scenarios. It said that life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like."

Be very surprised: A year ago today, here's what neocon brainchild Richard Perle told the American Enterprise institute: "[A] year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush."

Dobbs' jabs: CNN's Lou Dobbs says the UN head's recent assertion--which jives with opinions of many experts in international law--that the Iraq war was waged illegally amounts to "another incredible outburst by Kofi Annan." Annan said the war was "not in conformity with the Security Council, with the U.N. charter." When asked, "It was illegal?," Annan replied: "Yes, if you wish," adding: "I have indicated it is not in conformity with the U.N. Charter; from our point of view and from the Charter point of view, it was illegal."

Fear wins! When Arabic writing was found on the pages of an in-flight magazine on a Milwaukee-to-San Francisco Midwest Airlines flight, the airline grounded the plane. Of the writing--which turned out to be "something of a contemplative nature," written in Farsi--Janan Najeeb of the Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition said, "When you have individuals who can't read a foreign language and assume some scribbles on something is a terrorist message, there's something clearly wrong with the direction the country is going."