Moo, Baa, La la la!

I know no more needs to be said about the astonishing stupidity of the Administration and its faith in our absolute credulity, but every once in awhile it's fun to revisit concrete proof of their insulting inadequacy.

From Daily Kos, via pseudorandom:

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon." -- Condoleezza Rice, May 16, 2002

Really, Condi? REALLY?!

WASHINGTON -- In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties. One of the imagined targets was the World Trade Center. In another exercise, jets performed a mock shootdown over the Atlantic Ocean of a jet supposedly laden with chemical poisons headed toward a target in the United States. In a third scenario, the target was the Pentagon -- but that drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic, NORAD and Defense officials say.-- USA Today, April 18, 2004

I was amazed when I read Richard Clarke's 'Against All Enemies' because while I was ready to believe the administration may not have done everything possible to avert an attack, I hadn't assumed such a bunch of hawks would so happily slap on the blinders to what had been non-partisan expertise from many directions. Willful ignorance that ascends to the criminal followed by lies relying on unquestioning acceptance.