Really goof and you'll get a really big medal

Another case of refusing to acknowledge reality occurred yesterday when President Bush award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation's highest civilian award which is given to men and women of exceptional merit, integrity and achievement, to Paul Bremer, Tommy Franks and George Tenet.

I’m sure that the three of them are pretty smart and have gone far in their careers. However, they each made very major errors relative to Iraq. Bremer acknowledged one of his a few months ago: he did not ask for more troops. However, he did not acknowledge his wrong decision to disband the Iraqi army. Franks said we’d be able to really lower our troop commitment in the summer of 2003. Tell that to the kids being called up today. Tenet was convinced that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Despite these singularly inept achievements, they were given our nation’s highest civilian award for achievement. Remember Orwell: War is Peace.