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This last week, Republican presidential candidate Tommy Thompson did a fine job of showing how right wing ideology is capable of complaining about a problem even while supporting the very same course of action that brought that problem about in the first place.

Tommy Thompson was campaigning in Iowa when he told an audience that the Bush Administration’s conduct of the war has “a degree of insanity stapled with it”. Thompson also complained that, “Eight and a half billion dollars a month and we still do not have a plan on how we’re going to win the war or win the peace.”

Tommy Thompson also said that, if he were elected President, he would nominate Colin Powell to serve as his Secretary of State. It was Colin Powell, some will remember, who helped George W. Bush to the United Nations about fake evidence for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Colin Powell also had a special responsibility, as Secretary of State and former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for ensuring that the Bush White House develop a plan for how to win the war and how to win the peace. Colin Powell did not fulfill that responsibility, yet Tommy Thompson wants him back in the White House.

For proposing to reconstitute the political team that led America into Iraq in the first place, it’s Tommy Thompson who has “a degree of insanity”.

(Source: Radio Iowa, June 19, 2007)