Try to remember who you're talking about, Chris: GWB.
Well, GWB and/or his advisors. Reminds me of recent political cartoon: Cheney tells his aide, "Tell the man in charge that I shot someone." The aide replies, "Sir, you shot someone."

So, not GWB himself, but his administration, might be smart enough to pull it off. After all, they're smart enough to make half the American public think that Iraq was involved in 9/11. They're smart enough to get budgets and plans through Congress that misstate billions upon billions of dollars.

Chris

The administration's success has more to do with the intelligence of 1/2 of the american public and congress than the intelligence of the administration.