Finally, the U.S. role in stoking the Palestinian civil war is exposed. I've known about this for a while due to my close reading of the Palestinian media, but it has gotten very little acknowledgement here. We pushed for elections, then rejected the results and pushed Abbas into a civil war. In other words, we got what we wanted. This reporter fulfilled a very important public service in a time when investigative journalism is rare.

The ongoing arrogant incompetence of this administration defies belief. Here is one more example of their hypocrisy with results that are nothing short of criminal.

The botched plan has rendered the dream of Middle East peace more remote than ever, but what really galls neocons such as Wurmser is the hypocrisy it exposed. “There is a stunning disconnect between the president’s call for Middle East democracy and this policy,” he says. “It directly contradicts it.” Bush and Rice are ignorant idiot megalomaniacs.

A rather thorough bit of well-researched journalism on a very important topic providing ample documentation and demonstrating yet another disastrous exercise in US foreign policy while highlighting the utter and complete incompetence of the current administration. For a more brief summary of the story, listen to the interview with the reporter here: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza_documents200804