Toto draws the curtain aside

In order to understand the great and awesome power that was the Wizard of Oz you needed to peek behind the curtain (thanks Toto).

Likewise, if you want to understand the Bush administration you must peek behind the curtain. In this case, the curtain is labelled "Rebuilding America's defenses" and was written by the Project for a New American Century (a think-tank which included the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams, John Bolton, and I. Lewis Libby at the time).

Rebuilding America's Defenses

If you want to read a synopsis instead, here is an article by William Rivers Pitt:

The Writing on the Latrine Walls