Baby Steps

Well one sign that the Maliki government is coming along like the Bush Administration wants is that they clearly operate in the same alternative universe. Both governments seem to operate on the theme of "we're gonna fuck up, and what's more we are going to fuck up as soon as possible".

With the Saddam execution it's two-two-two incompetent governments fucking up for maximum effect. It's the stupidity squared! That's right, the videos from the Saddam hanging are going to be investigated, even though the "Steven Hadley" of Iraq was one of the ghouls with the cell phone.

...a prosecutor at the trial that condemned Mr. Hussein to death, said that one of two men he had seen holding a cellphone camera aloft to make a video of Mr. Hussein’s last moments — up to and past the point where he fell through the trapdoor — was Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Mr. Maliki’s national security adviser. Attempts to reach Mr. Rubaie were unsuccessful. The prosecutor, Munkith al-Faroun, said the other man holding a cellphone above his head was also an official, but he could not recall his name.

Why can't these folks use their videophones on "ladies in the toilet" like a good Bush Republican?

THE BUSH METHOD OF POLITICAL PROCESS -- NOW INTERNATIONAL

Step One: Say you intend to fuck up.

Step Two: Have people tell you, "hey you know, if you do this, it's fucked up."

Step Three: Tell the people in Step Two that they are truly fucked up if they do not allow you to fuck up.

Step Four: Fuck up.

Step Five: Watch as it turns out you fucked up even worse then people thought possible. I mean, you fucked up fucking up for fuck's sake!

Step Six: Deny Fucking Up.

Step Seven: State that no one could have anticipated such a fuck up.

Step Eight: Tell your critics it is too soon to talk about the last fuck up, because you have a whole slew of fuck ups to fuck up at the present so they can "go fuck themselves".

Step Nine: Appoint fucked up internal review of the fuck up by the folks that fucked up the fuck up in the first fucking place.

Step Ten: Announce findings five or six other fuck ups later. Hoping no one gives a fuck.

UPDATE:

There is now a denial that Mowaffak al-Rubaie did this and it has been yanked from the story.