The problem is that the course was not defined at the outset; it was changed drastically several times in the course of the war dependingt on what line Bush thought he could sell.

The course as currently defined, like the orgiinal invasion, is predicated on a poor perception of the nature of the public intop which Bush seeks to inject his beliefs about what "should" be.

If you go to a Thursday bazaar, where owning a single stall is a sign of prestige and every sale is argued to the tenth of a dinar, and try to sell them computer-based market analysis, because everyone knows that's how it should be, they will run you out of the bazaar on muleback.

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