Col. Pat Lang has a few words of widsom for wannabe kings and their henchmen -

"Anyone who thinks that the president of the US is a CEO who runs America like a business enterprise and in who is in charge of all policy greatly over-estimates the power of the office and its ability to control history. Several inhabitants of that office have learned to their sorrow that they are not elected kings. GWB just learned it again when a group of relatively "little" people in the intelligence establishment gutted his Iran plans by defying him. Now his flunkies and allies are going to see if they can turn the gutting knife around and use it on the defiant. They should take care. They may end up like the white-tails I used to hang in trees in Maine. They turned slowly in the wind until you took them down."