Our MBA president is reportedly a disciple of the MBO (Management by Objective) school of thought where a problem is defined in terms of a goal and measurable objectives that have to be met in an orderly way to achieve that goal. 

The game of football is a familiar example.  The goal (to score by moving the ball into the end zone) is achieved by meeting concrete objectives (a first down) with metrics (did we move the ball ten yards?). 

Where is Bush’s Yale graduate level MBO training reflected in his Iraq “plan”?  At the beginning of his Iraq conquest there was little or nothing said about the "end zone" of democracy, and he stated explicitly that we were not in the business of nation building.  It was all about objectives: eliminate Saddam's WMD; er…, that is Saddam Hussein’s connection to Al Qaeda; er …, that is the “Axis of evil”; er…, evil torture chamber regime change; er…, democracy for the Iraqis. Yes!  That’s it - democracy for the Iraqis. 

His grandiose goal of democracy in Iraq gradually floated to the surface only as these other leaky excuses have sunk one after the other in the sea of irrefutable truth.

Then democracy for the Iraqis morphed into stability for the region.  Now the Bush regime is trumpeting ever grander pronouncements to justify the mounting casualty count and the hemorrhaging of the national treasury.  It seems that we’re bleeding for democracy in Iraq to stem a conspiracy to create an Islamic Caliphate from Spain to Indonesia.  Wow!  Armageddon, “Bring it on!”

It looks like our president slept through his Yale MBO classes.  He took a crash makeup course in Cheney MBO (Management by Obfuscation).  Not satisfied with that, he is working on another MBA degree (Messianic Bus***e Apocalypse).