Reply #37: These neo-con policy wonks expected the Bush Administration to be competent,

[pinto]

that's really the complaint, here, I think. They underestimated the ability - or willingness - of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and his allies in this fractured administration to execute their goals militarily. It's a truly sad era in our international relationships all around. And a deadly exercise in unrestrained Executive power, from politicizing the Pentagon, to the troop deployments, the human losses and the funneling of some trillions in our nation's tax dollars for this whole disaster. The sooner the entire cabal is gone, the better. Policy wonks and adminstration, alike.

Lock, stock and barrel.

We can do better than this and we must.