Preznit Putz has an indisputable talent for fucking up a wet dream. Honestly. Look at his track record ... a gimmee job in the Texas Air National Guard; business after business driven to ruin by his incompetance; a war in the Middle East; oh and his ineptitude in the Israeli-Palestinian mess...

Five years ago this month, President Bush stood in the Rose Garden and laid out a vision for the Middle East that included Israel and a state called Palestine living together in peace. "I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror," the president declared.

The takeover this week of the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group dedicated to the elimination of Israel demonstrates how much that vision has failed to materialize, in part because of actions taken by the administration. The United States championed Israel's departure from the Gaza Strip as a first step toward peace and then pressed both Israelis and Palestinians to schedule legislative elections, which Hamas unexpectedly won. Now Hamas is the unchallenged power in Gaza.