The definition of insanity

Enough strangeness has emanated from the White House in recent weeks that I believe it's really time we question whether or not President Bush retains all of his mental faculties (what few he had, that is). At some point, you cross the line from bad judgment to insanity (believe me, I know), and there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the preznit is not sane, as this incisive essay by Paul Craig Roberts suggests:

Bush’s astonishing determination to deny Iraq reality was made the same day that the US-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and US puppet King Abdullah II of Jordan abruptly cancelled a meeting with Bush after Bush was already in route to Jordan on Air Force One. Bush could not meet with Maliki in Iraq, because violence in Baghdad is out of control. For security reasons, the US Secret Service would not allow President Bush to go to Iraq, where he is "building a stable democracy."

Bush made his astonishing statement in the face of news leaks of the Iraq Study Group’s call for a withdrawal of all US combat forces from Iraq. The Iraq Study Group is led by Bush family operative James A. Baker, a former White House chief of staff, former Secretary of the Treasury, and former Secretary of State. Baker was tasked by father Bush to save the son. Apparently, son Bush hasn’t enough sanity to allow himself to be saved.

I've always heard that the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." If that doesn't describe Iraq, I don't know what it means.