The LA Times shows again why it dominated the Pulitzers. Maybe it's just me - and I'm no pundit - but why, why, why would all these people connected to Iraq be considered for what amounts to promotion?

Let's look at this objectively ... assume that Bush is re-elected. Normal turnover opens up a ton of positions. Still, the biggest of the Bush administration failures is Iraq. There are likely people in the administration working on projects that worked ... or failed less spectacularly. If the Bushies are just going to rub our face in the people that failed to plan properly for the Iraqi occupation, they either just don't get it or just don't care what we think.

I'm torn on this, going back and forth explaining the Bush administration as either incompetent or violently ideological. We'll know more after Rice's "conversation" this week.