People with a history of bad decisions shouldn't be given power to make decisions!

Once again, Digby nails the current situation:

When you combined the neocon and harcore hawk track records with a mandate to reject anything that Bill Clinton might have endorsed, you ended up with the hacktacular mishmash of sophomoric chest thumping, mindless military actions and conscious rejection all mutual understanding with our allies. It was an amazing thing to watch and I'm not sure we have enough distance from it yet to even begin to understand the full dimension of the errors that ensued.

Also, you really can't discuss these people and their repeated bad decisons without mentioning the running battles with the CIA over the years. The Dick and Don Team B show, in particular, had overestimated the Soviet threat so many times in the past that the fact that anyone listened to a word they said is a testament to the sheer will of their personalities. [Snip]

The people who were flogging Iraq for the past decade or so had all been proven wrong many, many times before. I frankly couldn't believe it when the Team B people were screaming that the sky was falling again, based on transparently flimsy evidence, and people were actually believing them. That is why there is an obvious danger in allowing people who are wrong over and over again to have privileged access to the informed discourse when big decisions are being made. In the heat of the moment people forget that these people are always wrong about everything.

What's going to happen next is that all the people who have been wrong about forcing us into an unnecessary war in Iraq are going to be saying that it would have worked if their enemies hadn't sabotagued the war. That's because conservatism is never wrong. Failures occur because (a) someone sabotagued the efforts and the conservatives pushing the program could not overcome the opposition, (b) the people who pushed the program turned out after the fact not to be REAL conservatives, or (c) Both.

The invasion of Iraq was unnecessary to begin with, could not have succeeded, and then was carried out with a degree of ignorance and blindness that every potential failure in the wrong strategy has been explored and practiced. ALL of this is the fault of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their NeoCon advisors.

Remember that when the level of failure that is Iraq has been accepted as the very worse mistake made by the American government in foreign policy - EVER. Because that's when those responsible start pointing fingers.

Those people must never be allowed back into the American government. Ever. They should be branded "NeoCon - Caused Iraq."