A Study in Incompetence

So to prove that "progress" has been made in Iraq President Bush makes another "surprise" visit.

I said over a year ago that if the President, Vice President, Secretary of State or Defense cannot go to Iraq announced there is no progress. And yet, here we are a year later and the only way to go is under cover.

The idea that President Bush beliives that history will judge him kindly is ludacrous. No, Mr. Bush, history is going to think that you could have won this thing, this presumptive war, if you had paid attention to people who knew. If you had put competence in front of party loyalty. Maybe not putting a 20 year old in charge of the stock market in Baghdad. Maybe not asking people their stand on Rove V Wade as part of their interview for jobs in the Green Zone. Maybe not firing a guy who knew about Public Health and replacing him with a party hack who's first order of business was a non-smoking campaign.

Perhaps having someone other that Tommy Franks who might have paid attention to the insurgents on the march to Bahdgad might have done some good. Not letting the city go to looters because it would help shrink the government. Maybe if in the fifth year of the war people in Baghdad has more than one hour of electricity a day. Maybe if there weren't 2 million refugees in Syria and Jordon. Maybe if you had helped the refugees in Iraq who don't have running water or food. TODAY.

No Mr. Bush, history and historians are going to have a field day with your presidency. From Katrina to Alberto Gonzalez you are a study in Incompetence.

Maybe that's what they should call the book on you.