NeoConfessional

Richard Perle and friends discuss who really lost Iraq. Good Gravy. From the WSJ WashWire:

Vanity Fair posts a magazine article on its Web site today based on exclusive interviews With Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman and other neocons who give the Bush administration poor marks on the Iraq war.

“I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national-security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent,” Adelman says in the article. “They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional.”

Please read on:

Richard Perle: “Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened, and certainly almost no voice in what happened after the downfall of the regime in Baghdad. I’m getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war. I was in favor of bringing down Saddam. Nobody said, ‘Go design the campaign to do that.’ I had no responsibility for that.”

Kenneth Adelman: “The problem here is not a selling job. The problem is a performance job.… Rumsfeld has said that the war could never be lost in Iraq, it could only be lost in Washington. I don’t think that’s true at all. We’re losing in Iraq.… I’ve worked with [Rumsfeld] three times in my life. I’ve been to each of his houses, in Chicago, Taos, Santa Fe, Santo Domingo, and Las Vegas. I’m very, very fond of him, but I’m crushed by his performance. Did he change, or were we wrong in the past? Or is it that he was never really challenged before? I don’t know. He certainly fooled me.”

It’s times like this that I need a good rock song.
With a drum solo. World turning.