Yes, our leaders lack forsight.

Chess players have been known to predict what the opponent will do 10 to 20 moves ahead. Evidently our leaders are not good chess players. They did not have the foresight to realize that if they depose of a leader like Saddam that was and is popular in some circles these people would be patriots and fight them to the end. They did not have the foresight to realize that if they lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that when none were found there word in the future would not be credible. They did not to realize that if they did not abide with the Geneva convention rules it would lead to sexual abuse in our own prisons which in turn would lead to be headings of innocent civilians and military by the other side. When you want to play the game of cruelty, the other side has the upper hand. They did not anticipate that invading other countries such as Iraq would promote recruitment of the other side and be regarded as a religious war. After invading Iraq they did not have a plan for exit. They did not realize that fabricating a forged document such as he NIGER document, which stated that Saddam was attempting to buy Uranium from Niger, would cause them to loose credibility in the World arena. Now they are confirming someone else who is a yes man and who cannot see or anticipate any further than the hand in front of his face. They did not expect that revealing a CIA agent could and should lead to Impeachment. Perhaps they got away with that. Do they realize that if they get away with this that means any President in the future can commit such egregious behavior? Does the public realize that since this country was led into war primarily to get Bush reelected that any president can lie and do more of the same in the future?

Yes, our leaders are not good chess players. Oh-hum more of the same lack of foresight. The same types of appointments of individuals who are yes men and lack foresight and vision.

Did you expect anything else from this group of cronies?