…where jack sometimes does stuff, but mostly not

So, Bush backhandedly admits that Saddam had no ties to 9/11.

Well, duh. Anybody paying attention knows that. (“But Jack, why do more than two-thirds of Americans think that Saddam had something to do with the attacks?” Because they aren’t paying attention.) The only remaining justification for the war is that Saddam was, you know, no longer meeting our criteria as an acceptable murderous dictator (“Duh, Pinochet and Rios Montt am good, Saddam am bad, Koko like banana, yum-yum”).

My question is, why do any of these people still have jobs? I’m talking about Bush, of course, but I’m more specifically wondering about Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, and other senior officials in the Bush administration.

What’s that old saw about bureaucracy… “if I ran my business like the government, I’d be out of business,” right? Well, if I behaved like these cabinet officials, I’d not only be fired, but also sued by my former employers and possibly jailed for fraud.

I mean… turning a huge surplus into a record-breaking deficit, going shockingly over budget on the war, steadily losing troops to enemy fire long after combat has been declared over, mis-predicting the timetable for rebuilding and the likelihood of winning the battle for ‘hearts and minds’, finding no weapons of mass destruction or other evidence that Saddam was violating the U.N. resolutions, handing hugely profitable no-bid sweetheart contracts to companies with preexisting relationships to key administration officials, constantly being proven wrong on assertions about yellowcake, aluminum tubes, and meetings in Prague, failing to find the actual bad guys (Saddam and Osama), undersupporting Afghanistan until the Taliban and al-Qaeda have time to regroup and consolidate power, giving our allies the finger for months before turning around and asking them for cash and soldiers… I could go on like this for days, if only I had the energy.

Can these bozos do anything right? Other than ramming their politically motivated tax-cut packages through the legislative process over the objections of responsible economists, and campaign fundraising? What do you have to do to get fired from this administration? Directly profit from the death of American soldiers? Be seen eating Brie? Lie about an affair?