Name the Circle

William A. Cook thinks pretty much any or every circle in Dante's Inferno would make a good final "resting" place for the neo con gang. He suggests it's too bad you couldn't move them through each in turn.

Of course, a couple of years back, The Onion reported that a "10th Circle [was] Added to Rapidly Growing Hell" (now in the premium archives, hence no link). IIRC, advertising executives were at least one group so condemned--too bad I don't remember just what fate awaited. Still, considering the wholesale merger between big politics and big advertising, you can easily justify a placement.

Then again, my own punishment for the clowns running the government is a lot simpler: I'd deploy them to Iraq as reservists called to action. Let them experience first hand what they've called others to do for them. By calling them reserves, they'd also realize the unpleasant fact that those in the reserves are being given short shrift when it comes to equipment like body armor, night vision goggles, and so on.

I think it'd take about fifteen minutes on patrol before they vowed to never use war as a backdrop for political campaigns.