Those who think the super-rich are smarter than the rest of us might want to take a look at the foreignpolicy speeches given in the millionaire-laden United States Senate recently. In one thick headed orationafter another, the pro-war majority of the nation’s "elite" legislative chamber gave some remarkablydippy reasons for authorizing the daft George W. Bush to attack Iraq. Against all the evidence and commonsense, they claimed that Saddam Hussein is a serious threat to the US, that Hussein can no longer be deterredexcept by pre-emptive U.S. military action, and that there is a serious link between the Iraqi dictator andextremist Islamic terror networks.