It’s a given at this point that Bush supporters really have to go out of their way to justify the stuff the man does, and that they don’t seem to have any limits to just how strained their logic will be if it’s used at all. But I have to admit, this write-up by Wes Pruden starts to drift into Retard Country.

President Bush himself, though blindsided by the National Intelligence Estimate, further added to public confusion with his praise of the “good work” of the men who had betrayed him again. This sounded familiarly like his famous praise for Michael (“You’re doing a good job, Brownie”) Brown, the FEMA chief who bungled the early recovery efforts in New Orleans. If anybody in town is entitled to his contempt for the intelligence services that misled him about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and now Iranian nuclear research, it’s George W. Bush.

That’s right. Pruden is claiming that the intelligence community “misled” Bush about Iraq and Iran. Poor innocent Georgie really didn’t want to go to war with Iraq, no, it was just those inept intelligence officials who fed him bad information that got us there. Certainly the likes of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney hadn’t been clamoring for a war in Iraq since Clinton was president, of course not.

His conclusion goes even further into the inner sanctum of Retard Country, where even the locals avoid.

We might put down intelligence failures to benign incompetence but for the evidence that something more sinister is at work. One U.S. official who has worked with the three chief authors of the National Intelligence Estimate — Thomas Fingar, Vann Van Diepen and Kenneth Brill, all one-time officers at the State Department and now in the office of the director of national intelligence — calls the intelligence estimate a political exercise to torpedo George W.’s attempt to prevent a new Islamic bomb in Iran. The diplomats want only more teacup diplomacy that doesn’t work. The message they read in the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup is clear: We can all go back to sleep.

Okay, in the first half he rails the intelligence community for “misleading” Bush into war, but now we’re being told that they’re purposefully saying this to prevent Bush from stopping Iran from getting a nuke? Which is it, Wes? You can’t have your yellowcake and eat it too.

Confronted with the bleeding obvious, that Bush cherry-picked intelligence in 2002 but this time he’s getting shut down from all sides, the only way they can turn this around so their idol doesn’t look like the liar he is is to interpret thing in the most tortured way possible.

So, it bears repeating: Wesley Pruden is a complete moron.