Shorter Rick Martinez

I may be a fucking idiot, but at least i'm not a dirty fucking hippie.

I wasn't dismayed when no active weapons of mass destruction programs were discovered after Saddam's fall. I was relieved. And the invasion did crush the most effective WMD Iraq had in its possession -- Saddam himself. He was responsible for killing at least 800,000 of his own people and more than double that number when you include the ill-fated wars he launched against Iran and later Kuwait.

Getting rid of Saddam was the best thing Bush ever did. However, regime change was not the finish line. Transforming Iraq into a strong, independent Muslim democracy was and, unfortunately, that finish line is nowhere in sight. Had Bush learned lessons from his predecessors, particularly Harry Truman, the world would be celebrating a free Iraq instead of lamenting one more troubled hot spot.

Bush's biggest mistake -- the one that will keep his presidency from greatness -- was appointing and eventually placing his trust in former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld. The former Navy pilot believed that wars of the 21st century could be won on the cheap, with more reliance on technology and less on good old-fashioned quantities of soldiers, sailors and Marines. The fallacy of that thinking was exposed when, shortly after being liberated, Iraqis looted with impunity as American soldiers looked on. Rumsfeld's said looting was an expression of newfound freedom.

I'm still traveling, but I'll bet when i get back into town on Monday, assuming that Martinez' shit from 2002 and 2003 is still online, it take me less than ten minutes to find examples of him telling people who predicted precisely what was going to happen in Iraq that they were morons.