I guess ass-kissing does work

"What is happening in Washington today is that those who were skeptical of the Iraq war and warned the White House against going in are being purged. And those who assured President Bush it would be a cakewalk, that we would be welcomed with flowers and not suicide bombers, that democracy would take root in Iraq and spread through the region, that he would be the Churchill of his generation are being promoted. Those who were wrong are being advanced, and those who were right are being dismissed."

- Pat Buchanan, www.TheAmerianCause.org, 11/22/2004