Bush administration...deliberately incompetent ? Sun Tzu and art of war

[EVDebs]

Sun Tzu and the Art of Spying
by Noah Leavitt, AlterNet. Posted January 5, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/rights/30394 /

Embedded in this article is further insight on Sun Tzu's thinking on warfare which the Bush administration appears to be taking too far,

""Deception must be ongoing, and unpredictable: "Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.""

The incompetence and ineffectiveness of this administration is breathtaking. They REALLY are winning. The incompetence and ineffectiveness just gets better and better each and every day. I can hardly stand it. Truly in their puzzle palace of mirrors they have made Black equal White and 2 + 2 = Whatever.

They have taken Stalin and Churchill's admonition about truth, 'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies', to the extreme.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin (also attributed to Churchill, who probably stole it from...!)

They are making the entire American populace akin to Henry David Thoreau, who said
""Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison""

[jean]

1. But he, and they, are totally predictable. Liars, each and every time

[Poll_Blind]

2. More like Adams' description of Zaphod Beeblebrox from THHGTTG

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.

PB

[pretzel4gore]

3. win win win win win!

omg! lol!

[EVDebs]

4. They go to war on 30 yr old warplans, build permanent bases and then

act like they don't exist, spy on Quakers who post their plans on the web, and then do a 'what, me worry' act

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=379516

They are truly the most idiotic, pretzel logic, crowd of clowns I've ever come across in politics. Bush's ratings will be in the teens before the '08 election. Will the R's EVER recover ? Let's hope not !