SASless - I think I'm right in saying that you don't rate Dempsey as the sharpest knife in the draw, but is there any chance that this might have been a pointed 'I have no idea what it is that the administration is trying to get us embroiled in, Sir, but it will be a CF if you let them'? Or is that too sophisticated a gambit for him? (Genuine question - I've been lax in reading anything about Dempsey)