“When you have to make a secret trip to Iraq, I think, probably, your surge plan isn’t working,” HBO’s Bill Maher said on Chris Matthews’ Hardball this evening, referring to President Bush’s weekend visit to the devastated war-plagued country.

“He’s not a reader,” Maher said of Bush. “He didn’t think he had to learn anything about Iraq…He prayed on it.”

The political commentator/comedian added that he couldn’t stand to see Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani in the White House because he feels they view the world much too simply, much like Maher thinks Bush views the world.