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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.
AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
The incompetence of the [Donald] Trump transition team, the likes of which we`ve never seen is a bad thing.
The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.
There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.
The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.
Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.
Martha Stewart published her recipe for disaster -- mix one part arrogance with two parts incompetence, simmer in the juices and then serve hot in the can.
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
I really can't abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That's certainly true of most of what's happened in Russia under Putin.
I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople.
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.
For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.
We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.
Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.
Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
Few in Europe imagined the incompetence and dishonesty of Greek economic managers would bring the entire European project into question.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.
Hillary Clinton cannot run away from her own record of incompetence or from the Obama record of abject betrayal.
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.
By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.
