The Retep Principle

In the Bush Administration, Bizarro World laws apply. Rather than following the dictates of the Peter Principle, people eventually reaching a level of their incompetence, they just keep rising.

Walter Pincus points this out today (on Page 1 again!):

Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were probably meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said.

That's nothing, wait until they get their "Medals of Freedom"!