"The most dispiriting and awful moment of the whole administration was the day that Bush gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to [former CIA director] George Tenet, General Tommy Franks, and [Coalition Provisional Authority chief] Jerry [Paul] Bremer -- three of the most incompetent people who've ever served in such key spots. And they get the highest civilian honor a president can bestow on anyone!
That was the day I checked out of this administration.
It was then I thought, There's no seriousness here, these are not serious people.
If he had been serious, the president would have realized that those three are each directly responsible for the disaster of Iraq."
