Early Days in Iraq

I was reading a piece on msnbc.com this morning:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14868608/from/ET/

I cannot know to what extent this is accurate or not. It would have been perfectly appropriate for the Bush administration to appoint some people who were loyal to his ideas and administration. But this article suggests that the practice was so dominating that it became a touchstone over expertise.

Again, just because it's in an article doesn't mean it's true. But of course it plays into my own impressions of the Bush administration. That his venture in Iraq was a test of neo-conservative ideology and of the conservative think tanks in Washington. Let's forget for a moment that the actual lives of thousands upon thousands of people were involved for a moment, including over two thousand dead American soldiers. Instead, let's take the Iraq war as an experiment in neo-conservative foreign policy.

Okay, the experiment isn't quite done yet, but we have enough data in to draw firm conclusions.

IT FAILED. Waiter, we'll have several plates of humble pie for the Bush administration and also for the fundamentalists and neo-cons who supported this "experiment." And for dessert, could you elect people next time who actually know how the world works rather than operating from some simplistic enculturated paradigm with superficial religious sprinkles.