And Furthermore...

I meant to highlight this from Peter Galbraith's article (Whiskey Bar did, though). Along with cynicism and sadism, Team Bush will also be noted for sheer ignorance:

Recently, the Kurds identified the retired Iraqi officer who personally carried out the 1983 execution of more than five thousand members of the tribe of the Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani. The killer's son holds a senior security position in Iraq, appointed by the American occupation authorities.

In other words, the administration has NO fucking clue as to who they're actually dealing with in Iraq. No wonder the operation went so wrong so fast.