http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/11/obama-names-bill-clinton-to-president-post.html

The invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation that followed will go down in the annals of history as one of the most poorly planned, knee-jerked, $%^&-ed up exercises ever, and it is only by the dint of our bottomless pocketbooks and general unwillingness to quit that we scooped it out. Everything I read and see says we screwed up the initial few years or so royally there. The lack of planning for the post-war as compared for the invasion boggles the mind. WTF? Pure incompetence. And a fair number of those 4,000+ servicemen who did die didn’t need to.

And Bush was the CinC. So I’d disagree on the “overall he’s done good” comment. Glad he stuck it out to victory, but the war reminds me of the superior pilot using superior headwork to avoid to the need for superior airwork. Or more directly, proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

The irony is not lost on me how so much of The Chosen One’s campaign was about not having a Bush 3rd term, and, yet, here we are on the brink of the Clintonistas…again…3rd term…dumber and dumberer. What a conetry!

No to the first, but I never have. No to the second, but that had nothing to do with the President or the $40b joke called the TSA. Yes to the last, everytime I hear the current President mutter some BS like “Islam is a religion of peace” when all the evidence of his senses tells him the contrary. He and his advisors never have realized, to this late date, the nature of our enemy and the peril we face, because they have ignorantly, arrogantly and adamantly refused to recognize it or even acknowledge its name.

Regrettably, I expect even worse from the next President. My only hope is that if Carter, once burned repeatedly (if that makes sense) by the Soviets, could learn they weren’t his friends, perhaps the so-smart Obama won’t have to burned so much before he learns who our enemies are (assuming he actually cares about his oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

While I have remained damned glad that it was Bush and not Gore in the White House on 12 September, 2001, I have real limits with how much credit I give to Bush for how secure we really are (or aren’t).