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The Australian's foreign editor Greg (Jerusalem Prize) Sheridan, according to the paper's website, is "the most influential foreign affairs analyst in Australian journalism."

This journalistic colossus, who once boldly asserted that George W Bush "may well be judged, ultimately, a great president, especially in the war on terror" (14/9/06), has now, on the eve of the "great" one's consignment to history's dustbin, dismissed him as "a very flawed politician" (Politics of celebrity takes over, 1/11/08).

Now if Sheridan were a doctor...