The levels of incompetence displayed by BushCo is just staggering. From Reuters.com comes this,

Up to 30 gunmen in 10 cars fired on Iraq's interior ministry at dawn on Monday, killing two police and wounding five, ministry sources said, in what appeared a carefully coordinated attack on a sensitive target.

Yet more evidence of the lies of George Bush. We never had control over Iraq, the elections, the Constitution, the elections, etc. never would and most likely never will quell the insurgency. These aren't "propaganda" attacks as the U.S. military claims. They are real, they are reminders of what happens when you invade a country based on lies and follow that up with a thoroughly incompetent job of managing the invasion and its aftermath because you were more concerned about rewarding political loyalty at home than doing the right thing. Attacks like these are the result of corruption in the Iraqi "government." The same Reuters story notes that there appear to very good reasons for Sunnis to distrust the Interior Ministry,

On Sunday, the influential Muslim Clerics Association said it had discovered the bodies of two Sunni clerics and three other men in a morgue in Baghdad, three days after they were arrested by Interior Ministry troops.

Oh yeah, that's democracy and freedom for you. All of this bloodshed, torture, carnage, and human misery is the fault of George Bush and his political cronies who were more interested in making a quick buck or scoring political points. Bush appointed political cronies to run things in Iraq after he and Dick Cheney brow beat the CIA and military into invading the place. We're reaping the fruits of that policy. We blindly pursued a policy of "market driven solutions" instead of doing what was best for the people of Iraq once we had invaded their country. Bush and his cronies were more interested in lining their pockets and proviing some "political point" about the power of the "market" than in rebuilding Iraq economically and politically. The results are clear to see.

Is it too much to hope that the reconstruction of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast will be managed by professionals instead of cronies? Is it too much to hope that we don't reap the same fruits in this country as a result of Bush's failures?

posted by Idle Crank at 9/05/2005 01:58:00 PM