The War In Iraq Is Just Starting
These Are Not Bright Folks
by Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle

So for a long time I bought into a common schema for the Bush administration: dim-bulb president surrounded and propped up by bright, ruthless neocons. Agenda included manifest destiny and manifest morality. Agents everywhere worked craftily to forward said agenda while getting very darn rich in the process. I'm chagrined to admit now that I have, at least in part, bought into a lie. I was sold a bill of goods.
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