Do you think Bush even understands one iota of the high flown reasoning you're imputing to him? Does Dick Cheney even understand it? Have you ever listened to these guys?

Bush went to war because that's what tough guys do. And he won't get out because that's what tough guys don't do. That's the best Bush has ever been able to reason and that's the best he'll ever be able to reason. And Dick Cheney, for all his glib smoothness, is not one bit smarter than George Bush. He believes in exactly the same tough guy ideology, just with even more crazy juice.

Furthermore, that's basically what the country believes as well. Bush and the country were AS ONE on this war; they wanted to kick some Mideastern butt and they didn't much care who, how, or what came next. Neither Bush, Cheney, the neocons, or the country put one lick of thought into what in the world we were supposed to accomplish in Iraq, and every thing that's happened since then proves that fact. Nothing that's been done in Iraq makes any sense if you think there was ever a plan or even a tiny smigden of thought.

We went into Iraq for no better purpose than to prove the 'strength' doctrine--the stupid idea that if we don't show 'strength,' then we'll look weak and the bad guys will pick on us, and if we don't look weak, the bad guys will be scared of us. This is stupid reasoning, but people believe it, seriously. And they implement it when they get into government. And it's being implemented right now in Iraq. The reason Bush can't get out of Iraq is because he's afraid of looking weak. And that is all she wrote, Miss Digby.

Oh yeah, there's a policy paper that supposedly outlines all this neocon shit. So what? There's a policy paper for every fucking thing that ever could be done. It doesn't mean the paper drives the policy. People drive the policy and then they look up or cook up a bunch of papers and nice sounding professors to support the policy. That's how it works. The smart people aren't running the world, I'm sorry to tell you. It's the dumb people who run the world.

It is no longer intellectually feasible to give these people any kind of backhanded credit for intelligence or craftiness, as the dumbshit Chomsky left is so fond of doing. These people are not serious, smart, or competent. They are not secretly securing our oil supplies or protecting us in underhanded ways from the bad guys. They are just dumb shit fuckups, plain and simple. They are not in Iraq for some special smartypants reason known only to genius right wing Illuminati. They are in Iraq because they've a dug a giant ass hole for themselves--and for us--and they don't know how to get out of it. And the stupidest thing that anyone could think right now is to think they must have dug that hole for a reason--maybe they're looking for oil? Or going to China? Man, that's a big hole! There's gotta be a reason for it, right?

No, I'm sorry, they didn't have any good reason. They're just dug the hole because they're too stupid to do anything but dig holes.