Who the heck handled the crazy-people estimate?

Bill O'Reilly officially reverses course on Iraq on Feb. 20... with a typically elegant analysis of the situation:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200602220007

"Now, it's a small little thing, but I picked up on it, because here is the essential problem in Iraq. There are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them. And I don't -- we're never gonna be able to control them. So the only solution to this is to hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible. Because we just can't control these crazy people. This is all over the place. And that was the big mistake about America: They didn't -- it was the crazy-people underestimation. We did not know how to deal with them -- still don't. But they're just all over the place."


February 2003, Pentagon D Ring, Office of Special Plans:

Planner #1: Who was in charge of the Crazy-People Estimation? I think it's way low.

Planner #2: Dude, that number is just right. Invasion-ho!

Planner #1: I don't know. We officially estimate only seven crazy persons? Have you handled crazy-people estimates before?

Planner #2: Who knows? Only job I ever had was Republican Party chairman for Yoakum County, Texas.

Planner #1: Oh.

Planner #2: Is it the cocktail hour somewhere?