The bigger the screw up, the bigger the reward. Had they only gotten us into a SECOND war based on a lie and killed a FEW more innocent soldiers and civilians they could have gotten a cabinet post:
Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq — the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were probably meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets — have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said.