Bob Graham: Administration Used Intelligence Deceptively to Weaken War Against al Qaeda, Shift Resources to Iraq
Plus Bonus Afghanistan #^&*-Up: The Botched Rebuilding Effort

In today's post.

He'll be savaged by the patriotically correct Bush Defense System, of course.

And don't miss this on the botched "effort" (if we can even dignify it with that description) to re-build Afghanistan.

I've said it about 100 times by now: if we'd have had a minimally rational and minimally competent administration, we'd have poured massive resources into the Afghanistan effort, crushed al Qaeda, killed bin Laden, shredded the last remnants of the Taliban, slapped down the warlords, and rebuilt the country as a showpiece to illustrate that the U.S. will relentlessly pursue and destroy those who attack us and then show great compassion to civilians oppressed by those attackers and caught in the crossfire.

But instead of finishing the important and obviously justified task, the administration chose to leave it uncompleted and shift massive resources to an unjustified, crackpot, ill-thought-out Iraq scheme.

There is, so far as I can tell, no genuine alternative course of action that could have been worse. Of all the things we could have done post-9/11, the administration somehow managed to pick the worst of them: screw up two countries, invest lots of blood and treasure in both of them, but not enough to complete the job. Oh, and, of course, abandon the important project in order to go tilting at windmills...after carefully lying about the growing threat posed by windmills.

Bush really may be the worst president since Andrew Jackson.