IMPERIAL LIFE....

"IMPERIAL LIFE....The story of the day is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's account in Sunday's Washington Post of how the Bush administration mismanaged the postwar occupation of Iraq. It all started with the staffing decisions, and the point man for this was the Pentagon's Jim O'Beirne, husband of longtime conservative writer/talker Kate O'Beirne:

To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration.

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