GWB tours the US to survey the damage he inflicted. Onion video.

And that prescient Onion classic from 01/17/01 Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'

I don't buy the "incompetence" argument. Bush himself is probably astoundingly incompetent, but Cheney, Rove, Wolfowitz, Powell, Rumsfeld, Libby, Rice, Meyers, Clarke, Ridge, Armitage, Kissinger, etc. are not incompetent. Their manipulation of the Religious Right & the press, their skillful use of 9/11, their clever persuasion at the UN & their ability to evade justice all belie a tradition of extreme, albeit evil, competence. Call me a troofer if you want, but facts is facts.

Let's suppose for a moment that particular administration was democrat...does anyone think (besides being sure they would have been paying attention to things) that a Democrat Administration would have been let off the hook so easily?!!! I have always figured if it were a Democrat in office (and the attacks happened anyway) THAT man would HAVE been run out of office...rather quickly I think, for 'incompetence' at the very least. There is a very interesting article in Feb 2009, VANITY FAIR about the Bush Administration where Col. Wilkerson (Ret) describes how he and a John Bellinger groomed Condi for her 'testimony'...in his remarks he talks about how he and Bellinger 'cherry-picked' information to MAKE IT LOOK LIKE THE ADMINISTRATION (Bush) was interested in al-Qaeda...those are his actual words. Will dig up the link!!! Anyway, the subject matter never seems to come up when he's on KO or RM...and I would sooooooo love to hear him talk about that on the air...I have written to them about it, but it most likely has never been read by either of them.

Great piece by Parry, and another good post by Sargent. That Bitch PhD post is rather alarming.