Intelligent Design in Iraq

There are at least two things we know for certain about George W. Bush. One, he is committed to "stay the course" in Iraq, despite the clear and growing chaos on the ground. And second, Bush believes in the doctrine of intelligent design.

As it turns out, the two are related for President Bush. There is no question that Iraq is, as ID advocates like to say, "irreducibly complex." The security nightmare, the economic devastation and the budding civil war could not have come about by chance. Iraq shows all the signs of a faithful designer, if not an intelligent one: