"I was present at a staff meeting when Deputy Undersecretary Bill Luti called General Zinni a traitor."

Certainly, the neoconservatives never bothered to sell the rest of the country on the real reasons for occupation of Iraq—more bases from which to flex U.S. muscle with Syria and Iran, better positioning for the inevitable fall of the regional sheikdoms, maintaining OPEC on a dollar track, and fulfilling a half-baked imperial vision.

A bug in the rug, LTC Karen Kwiatkowski relates her experiences in that Glitter Factory known as the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Ca. 2000-2003. Warning: The laws of physics, common sense, duty, honor, honesty, and even Conservatism have been suspended for the duration of this journey. Again, from, of all places, The American Conservative magazine.