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Dang, he must be blocking trackbacks. :(

Never mind, I posted too soon. It's up now.

I have long wondered whether Cheney and Rumsfeld ever believed that their job was to build a new democracy in Iraq. Rumsfeld had dealt with and supported Saddam in the past; Cheney was extremely suspicious of occupying Iraq in 1990. One subversive theory - which I'm not endorsing, just airing - is that both merely wanted to turn the Saddam regime to rubble, and then play along with neocon democracy supporters, while making sure that the military was never given enough resources to do nation-building. Then Cheney and Rumsfeld could prove their point about the impossibility of reforming the Muslim world, and promote the view that we need merely to pummel enemies, project military fear across the region, and deter Islamo-fascism by "shock and awe." The Likud strategy, in other words.

Under this interpretation, Bush was too trusting or dumb to understand the deviousness of their plan to fail in Iraq; Wolfowitz saw it too late and got out; Rice is stuck managing the debris that a democracy-promoting president and a democracy-hostile Pentagon created. The troops were just pawns in Cheney's and Rumsfeld's strategy. This interpretation would mean that incompetence is not the issue. Cheney and Rumsfeld have succeeded: they have turned Iraq into a failed state, removed its capacity to make WMDs, and detonated a regional Sunni-Shi'a war. Now they want to use the same brutalist strategy against Iran. This theory is probably too complex and subtle to be true.

After reading the linked article, Occam would have slit is wrist with that razor of his.

This theory is probably too complex and subtle to be true.

What a narcissistic twit.

Wow, talk about ingratitude. I post a weather update for my GLBT friends of altenrative orientation at Gay Patriot this morning (same post at DL and LGF related blogs), and they deleted it.

Well, no more warnings to them of the impending disaster of Labor Day Weekend at Fire Island.

Next step for Andy- bricks on rabbit cages with flaming bowls of kerosene to prove the WTC was brought down by Halliburton explosives.

From Ace of Spades:

LMFAO!

He was really disappointed by the failure of gay marriage, wasn't he?

Yes, between the Bush administration's targeting of gay marriage, and the Vatican's proclaimation that homosexuality is "objectively disordered", he went off the deep end somewhere around February 2004.

Everytime I see the original cartoon from which the above cartoon is derived, I have to remind myself that those small dark round things are wheels on his office chair, not beagle turds.

The Bush Administration didn't 'target' gay marriage, gay marriage targetted the Bush Administration.

People that might have wanted gay marriage had 8 years of Bill Clinton, but suddenly it became a big issue when Bush became POTUS.

True, I should have chosen my words differently.