'second-rate' national security team
indeed
could they really have believed there were WMD ... after their first Iraqi War ?
and thought the second one would last only 3 weeks - Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Are you speaking about every European intelligence service? Because all of them beliieved there were WMDs. So did all the Democrats, until they jumped ship in the face of an unpopular war.
But Cheney is right. Obama has surrounded himself with people even less qualified than he is. And that's some kind of accomplishment. So State is run by someone with no foreign policy experience, other than visiting countries ina yacht. Defense by someone who never sat in a staff meeting. Treasury by someone with little to no background in economics or finance. And of course the spectacle of the Surgeon General being obese. That's just icing on the cake.