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Column: Just Say You’re Sorry, Doug

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The key to being really, really, really bad at your job, apparently, is to be so brazenly bad about it that people are too astonished to call you on it.

The above sentence is the first entry in a long list of things I learned about life from watching the Bush administration. I’d call it “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” but I understand that title’s taken.

Watching former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith on “60 Minutes” Sunday night and reading his new book, I’m struck more than ever by the truth of it.

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