The Thief of Baghdad (by M. Dowd): "But even incestuous amplification could not have drowned out reality if Bush officials had not glommed onto the Chalabi flummery for their own reasons — to feed their fantasies about refashioning America's power, psyche and military, and making over the Middle East in our image. Swept up in big dreams, the foreign policy dream team became dupes in Ahmad Chalabi's big con." Of course, I do not buy her thesis; I do not believe that one should only blame Chalabi, or only the CIA, which will absolve Bush of responsibility. In all of this, he alone is (legally and constitutionally) responsible, his incompetence and limited intellectual powers notwithstanding.