This article is a MUST read, and frightening.
http://www.iht.com/articles/118277.html<snip>
What war?WASHINGTON Talking to Donald Reagan once about his years as President Ronald Reagan's chief of staff, I asked what was the biggest problem in the White House in those days. "Everyone there thought they were smarter than the president," he said. "And I mean everyone."
The same thing seems to be happening now. As the U.S. strategy in Iraq, such as it is, collapses into a level of chaos, the accounts - read finger-pointing and head-burying - of how America got into this are not about what President George W. Bush thought, said or did. The accounts are about what he was told. Vice President Dick Cheney told him this. No, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that. Or was it Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, who said ...
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Things have gone wrong across the sea in the war and everyone is busily pretending not to notice. The terrible thing here is that the man in the great bubble on Pennsylvania Avenue may be the only one who does not actually know. He does not read newspapers or watch television, he says. Press and information itself are not relevant at the top. He does not talk to or listen to the Congress, they say. How would he know? Is Cheney or Rumsfeld telling him?<snip>
A frightening analysis on our situation.