One of the people in the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority), headquartered in Saddam's imperial palace in the "Green Zone" in Baghdad, who was given an assignment, then tried to carry out that assignment, found that the support and back-up from the Bush administration was all but non-existent. His situation was typical. He told Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post), "I am a neoconservative who has just been mugged by reality."   

Perhaps Teribus needs to be mugged by reality.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City : Inside Iraq's Green Zone, is fascinating. I challenge Teribus to read it (which he won't, of course, because he is already so stuffed with "knowledge" that he hasn't room for any more). It describes what the agents of the Bush administration are actually doing to try to "win the war" in Iraq and set up a democratic government.   If one were to write a treatment for a movie starring a combination of Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Buster Keaton, the Keystone Kops, and the Three Stooges, it might come close to depicting the incredible combination of ignorance, arrogance, and incompetence that's actually been going on there. When they dissolved the Iraqi army (implemented by "There will be no discussion on this!" Bremer), they rendered next to impossibile control of any insurgency that was bound to arise. A stupid decision, and one of the first of many.

Well worth reading if you want to know where your tax dollars are going. It would be absolutely hilarious were it not so freakin' pathetic!

Don Firth