George, Dick and John

On Iraq -- abysmally wrong. On the economy -- shockingly wrong. On Social Security -- hideously wrong. Yet still the president and still the vice-president. And still strutting around and making statements like they're the smartest people on the planet. And still somehow respected by 40% of the (not-paying-much-attention or tragically brainwashed) citizenry.



In George W. Bush, we have a president who has no interest or proclivity for anything literary, anything artistic, anything philosophical or anything scientific. Hell, he even admits that he doesn’t read the newspapers either. So it’s finally happened. Alfred E. Newman has grown up and become leader of the free world!



We’ve heard a lot about the yellow-cake plutonium that was supposedly going to be sent to Iraq, but turned out to be based on forged papers, but what was never really discussed was who perpetrated the fraud. And, since this was his area of expertise, what role John Bolton played in the matter, either in assessment of the original claims -- before the president used the information in his State of the Union speech — or before that (if you get my ... drift).

And, while I’m re-incited on the topic, it was Bush’s claim of nuclear danger in that speech, along with Colin Powell’s U.N. "exposition," of WMD facilities — based almost entirely on a disreputable source named "Curveball" — that propelled us into this costly excursion. So, come to mention it, since it was his area of expertise (top State Department official on WMD) what was John Bolton’s role in the Curveball fiasco?