And misplaced nine billion dollars.

I think you meant that last line to read And “misplaced” nine billion dollars. Because even if PNAC hack Michael Ledeen’s daughter doesn’t know where that $9,000,000,000 went, you know she’s pretending around her home-schooled little friends that she totally pulled off a coup on the evil guvmint. And they totally believe her, even though she keeps forgetting her wallet so they always have to pay for her drinks.

And Friedman is supposed to be one of America’s leading analists when it comes to political science?

You have to admit it takes… dedication… for Friedman to ram his head so far up his own anus, and in public no less. Tom was going to be an analyst when he first started publishing, but his editors told him (correctly!) that pulling factoids out of his @ss would pay better.

It was necessary to destroy Iraq in order to save it.

kind of like America!

Mistakes were made.

And, of course, nobody could have predicted any of this. Except for those lefty loons who did predict it, but they’re a bunch of dirty hippies and we can’t listen to them, ever. Never, never,nevernevernever lalalalalalaican’thearyoucan’thearyou!!!

Oh, and why can’t the Democrats fix this for us? They have no plan! And they hate America!

Those damned Iraqis, they can’t do anything right, can they?

So when are we going to start bombing Iran? Why haven’t we started yet? The Iranians are begging us to liberate them!

And Friedman is supposed to be one of America’s leading analists when it comes to political science? Sad.
The buck stops where its convinient for us.

No no no, you have it all wrong. We didn’t “invade” their country, we liberated its 26.8 million citizens (sincee reduced to 26 million or so now, but who’s counting?). And destroyed infrastructure? Haven’t you ever heard of “creative destruction”? We destroyed their infrastructure in order to create it, or something. And 20 something Heritage foundation staffers are teh hott, so I don’t see any objection there.

All this done for the benefit of Iraqis, and what do they do in thanks? Start whining about the lack of air conditioning, and “death squads” and “headless corpses” and “car bombs” etc. etc. etc.

Hey Iraqis – suck it up!! We gave you a large helping of freedom and all you do is complain about is senseless violence, terrorism, and death.

What a bunch of ungrateful children.

(Also reported as intelligence, but I think the first is the original quote.)

I’m afraid — I hope it’s not true — that it’s pretty hard to lose elections by overestimating the stupidity, vanity, and selfishness of american voters.

And misplaced nine billion dollars.