A Really Bad Excuse

As I was wading through the quintillion or so news stories today that dealt with either the criminal incompetence, corruption, or hubris of the Bush Administration, I stumbled upon this particularly odious little snippet from a report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction:

There were no detailed, overt preparations for the reconstruction of Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 invasion "to avoid the impression that the US government had already decided on [military] intervention."

Our War Monger in Chief and his happy little band of corporate cut-throats have emitted a prime bundle of obfuscations about the lack of post-war planning, ranging from their assertion that it was impossible to know what the situation on the ground would be after they conquered the country, to their claim that their victory was so brilliantly swift that it undid the planning they had in place. However, this stark admission that no detailed planning of any kind was undertaken, married to the absurd notion that to have done so would have somehow helped the enemy, leaves me truly breathless.

The Administration has been very fond of using this type of tortured logic in order to either justify its actions or deflect criticism from its more obvious fuck-ups. This latest NSA scandal provides another example. Here's Bush, explaining why Republicans in Congress shouldn't pass legislation that would give him the "express authority to continue the program."

But it's important for people to understand that this program is so sensitive and so important that if information gets out to how we run it or how we operate it, it'll help the enemy."

Oh, okay - so it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that if Republicans were to pass such legislation it would be an implicit admission that his ridiculous program was illegal in the first place. Sure.

If these guys are so concerned about defeating "The Enemy," it occurs to me that a better plan would be to, you know, come up with some sensible fucking policies that stand a chance of actually achieving that end. The enemy is abetted, after all, not by those who have the temerity to question these idiotic schemes, but instead by the idiots who commence them in the first place.