The irony deflector shield is quite operational

King George today:

Dictatorships seem orderly -- when one man makes all the decisions, there is no need for negotiation or compromise.

or no-one to question whether it's really a good idea to simultaneously trivialise violence in Iraq and insult Philadelphia:

The training of the Iraqi police is an enormous task and, frankly, it hasn't always gone smoothly. Yet we're making progress -- and our soldiers see the transformation up close. Army Staff Sergeant Dan MacDonald is a Philadelphia cop who helped train Iraqi police officers in Baghdad. He says this of his Iraqi comrades: "From where they were when we got here to where they are now, it's like two different groups of peoplea. They're hyped-up, they look sharp, they're a lot better with their weapons . I'd take these guys out with me back home." If he's going to take them back home in Philadelphia, they must be improving. (Laughter and applause.)