How to Screw Up and Get Rich:

George Tenet, the former director of the CIA who blew it on 9/11 and then failed to get the truth out about Iraq while providing Bush with a "slam dunk" metaphor, left his position in government with a Medal of Freedom in his pocket for a very lucrative and easy teaching position (he's not a real professor, just a celeb that rich folks' children can occasionally rub shoulders with), and now he's showing up on TV hawking his insider's book, At the Center of the Storm, for which he received a $4 million advance.

But that ain't the half of it, as my grandpa used to say. Tim Shorrock at Salon.com reports on more lucrative connections to Bush's war: "Tenet has been earning substantial income by working for corporations that provide the U.S. government with technology, equipment and personnel used for the war in Iraq as well as the broader war on terror."

Tenet may be rushing around the country, telling people that the war ain't his fault, but that's not keeping him from getting rich off of it. Now let me think, what's the reason we're in Iraq? Oh, yes, American democracy, keeping the terrorists out of our back yards, making the administrations friends even richer and more powerful than they already are.