The Bush "scorched brain" policy.

Alterman has this up:

Has our political class lost its collective mind? Here’s a story buried inside The Washington Post: “Faced with a U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Saddam Hussein would likely launch missile and terrorist attacks against Israel and U.S. facilities abroad, preemptive strikes against the Kurds in the north, and a ‘scorched-earth strategy’ in Iraq ‘significant enough to stop a military advance,’ the Defense Department’s top intelligence official said yesterday.”

Oh wait, this gentleman, Vice Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has actually served in the military, unlike George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tom Delay, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, George Will, Rush Limbaugh, Marty Peretz, Andrew Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Kelly, etc. He must not know what he is talking about.

Oh, here it comes. (Freeper voice): "Uh, Bush served in the Texas National Guard. LOL. Bump. Ping. Hitlery Klintoon...grunt grunt."

That doesn't exactly make President Grounded Until He Pees In A Bottle exactly Pentagon corner-office-material.