Great Job!

In a ceremony either resembling Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will or Gedde Watanabe's saliva-soaked "ribbons of shame" introduction in Ron Howard's Gung Ho, Princess George Bush (without the hair buns) bestowed our nation's highest civilian honor, The Presidential Medal of Freedom on Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of the Iraq invasion; Paul Bremer, the civilian overlord of the U.S. occupation; and George Tenet, the CIA chief who built the case for going to war.

Bush said, "Today, this honor goes to three men who have played pivotal roles in great events."

Pivotal all right. Pivoting great events into great disasters.

The guy who went to war with insufficient troops to securely occupy the country (which isn't so much his fault, really, because his job was to win the fight and not anticipate the political fallout); the guy who decided to disband the Iraqi army, which led to widespread looting and instability and the eventual reformation of the army; and the dude who called the case that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction "a slam dunk."

Tomorrow, at The White House: Kobe Bryant and Scott Peterson receive medals for advancing marital fidelity;