There was a remarkable op-ed piece by Peter Crane in the Washington Post on Tuesday.

Here’s a sample.

The family soon returned to Iraq, and we lost all contact with them. Maj. Ammash’s career prospered; he rose to be defense minister. In 1981, however, Saddam Hussein convened a meeting of party leaders and tearfully read out the names of those of his old comrades who were to be led from the hall and shot on the spot. Salih Madhi Ammash was among them.

By then, his daughter Huda, with a PhD from the University of Missouri, was a biologist working for the Iraqi government, reportedly in the germ warfare program. How it felt to go on working for the man who had ordered her father’s execution, one can only imagine. It seems unlikely that she had much choice.

Two years ago, when the United States invaded Iraq, Huda Ammash was the only woman on the list of most-wanted Iraqis. As the supposed “Mrs. Anthrax,” creator of weapons of mass destruction for Saddam Hussein, she was the five of hearts in the famous 55-card deck. She gave herself up to the American authorities and has been in custody since.

Six months ago, a White House spokesman confirmed that a team of American experts had concluded, after two years of searching, that there was no evidence of any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The leader of the team, Charles A. Duelfer, reported that Huda Ammash and two other scientists had cooperated fully with the investigators, and he urged their release. It’s only sensible: If you find that no crime has been committed, it’s hard to justify keeping the suspected perpetrator of that crime behind bars.

Read the whole piece and then ask yourself, if this is an example of how well we know our enemy what does that say about the foundations for this invasion? We invade on the pretext of a threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction and then it turns out that those weapons never existed in any militarily usable way, if they existed at all. When we invade we point a finger at a woman who was supposedly the mastermind behind these non-existent weapons and label her a most-wanted war ciminal.

The incompetencies of this adminstration just keep piling up, and they aren’t little inconsistencies or well-meant policy initiatives, they are full out disasters that destroy real people and real nations (including our own eventually).