More from Bob Woodward’s State of Denial, which is just full of those Holy Shit! moments. Here is one from Stephen E. Herbits, whom Woodward calls Rumsfeld’s “one-man think tank.” Herbits is proposing the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz to the Iraq pro-consul job that would eventually be botched by L. Paul Bremer III:

”His being Jewish is a plus: It is a reminder that this is not a war against religion, it is a clear signal that the position is temporary, that the former ambassador to the world’s largest Muslim nation [Indonesia] for three years has experience in being culturally sensitive.”