Stanford CIS

Presidential Medal for Failure

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Incompetence has its rewards.

Bremer badly mismanaged the Iraq Occupation.  Just yesterday, the Iraqi interim President complained bitterly of the disbanding of the Iraqi army. And Bremer's pro-consul-like imperiousness alienated the Iraqi people.  Basic infrastructure in Iraq is still not back in place, despite billions of mainly Iraqi money spent on the enterprise.

For that, a Presidential Medal of Honor.

And Tenet's repeated failures--from 9/11 to Iraq WMD--made us less safe.  But our un-reality-based President is assured that he "made our country more secure and advanced the cause of human liberty."

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