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Hey, I did NOT criticize the quality of the military in Bush's invasion of Iraq. But it's pretty clear he knew squat about what he'd do after he won.

Ah, the Marshall plan. I brought that up over dinner with an intelligence analyst for the Pentagon two weeks before the invasion, in early March 2003. (Here's a shocker for you: He was able to keep his dinner down while talking with me. But then his field is intelligence, unlike your specialty, looking exclusively at facts that suit you.) When we used the Marshall plan to rebuild governments in West Germany and Japan, we dealt with fairly well educated populaces, each with a high degree of homogeneity, and each with a culture of respect for authority and ability to work toward common goals.

Go ahead. Tell us how the Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites are as well educated as the West Germans were, or how they are as socially cohesive as the Japanese were. Yes, the Marshall Plan was expensive back then, but that plan then had a prayer of being sucessful. Given how how Bush's non-plan for Iraq is both so wise and successful, who's the moron?

And yeah, Senator Lugar is starting hearings because not only is everything going so well in Iraq, but he's also SO satisfied with Bush's post-Saddam plan to pull it off -- a stable Iraqi government. HA! You must think congressional hearings are held all the time to deal with things that are going according to plan. You can't figure out Bush's lack of a viable plan problem without a congressional staffer briefing you?

Thanks for taking the Africa bait. We invaded Iraq because of some al queda people being in Iraq. There are al queda people in Africa (and more places besides Iraq). Bush has invaded each of those countries in Africa and elsewhere too, hasn't he? Oh, that's right. The ones in Africa are not enough of a threat. They did not hijack planes... like the Iraqis did?