Oh Jesus in the Conservatory with a Lead Pipe!

While it goes through the continuing series of clusterfuckery the Bush Administration has exhibited in developing the Iraqi police force the NY Times has this little nugget:


Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner sent to Iraq in 2003 to lead the police mission, said Pentagon officials gave him just 10 days notice and little guidance.

"Looking back, I really don't know what their plan was," Mr. Kerik said. With no experience in Iraq, and little time to get ready, he said he prepared for his job in part by watching A&E Network documentaries on Saddam Hussein.

Kerik, of course, is a world class petty thief to begin with, but the above says all you need about him and the people that appointed him.