bagdad burning

my book has a lot of information it also has a lot to take in. what I understand most of it, the writer is very descriptive and makes everything understandable. There is only one problem i have with it, how can the government be so stupid sometimes. In the book it is 2003 and they are going to let 9 people be president for a month and chose out of them who ran the country the best and they pick very bad people according to the girl who uses her fake name called Riverben. They picked some guys who were about 80 and i think that is bad because most likely they are going to die soon so you can't rely on someone who might go any minuet. Then the rest are very stupid and Riverben calls them all puppets. I like the how the writer is very descriptive so i always know what she is talking about and i can totally understand it that's why i don't have to many questions.