Embittered Insiders Turn Against Bush

[BikeWriter]

The weekend after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell, Kenneth Adelman and a couple of other promoters of the Iraq war gathered at Vice President Cheney's residence to celebrate. The invasion had been the "cakewalk" Adelman predicted. Cheney and his guests raised their glasses, toasting President Bush and victory. "It was a euphoric moment," Adelman recalled.

Forty-three months later, the cakewalk looks more like a death march, and Adelman has broken with the Bush team. He had an angry falling-out with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld this fall. He and Cheney are no longer on speaking terms. And he believes that "the president is ultimately responsible" for what Adelman now calls "the debacle that was Iraq."

Adelman, a former Reagan administration official and onetime member of the Iraq war brain trust, is only the latest voice from inside the Bush circle to speak out against the president or his policies. Heading into the final chapter of his presidency, fresh from the sting of a midterm election defeat, Bush finds himself with fewer and fewer friends. Some of the strongest supporters of the war have grown disenchanted, former insiders are registering public dissent and Republicans on Capitol Hill blame him for losing Congress.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/18/AR2006111801076_pf.html

[aquart]

1. The idiots still think the war was a good idea.

But the execution failed. That there was NO way to do it right will never occur to them. If we had been honest and even-handed instead of corrupt, they still would be doing their best to kill us and each other. WE INVADED THEM. THEY DON'T LIKE INVADERS. Why is that so difficult to understand?

[Generic Brad]

2. It's difficult to understand for total idiots

Total idiots = pre-Iraq war neocons.

[countmyvote4real]

4. Thank you.

Although there was once a way to negotiate as an "honest broker," that has now been pissed on and flushed away by the policies and "skills" of the * regime. We have destroyed ourselves more than we know, but maybe we can do it over with a PS3. HA.

[BikeWriter]

7. Yep, their freedom fighters don't like our occupation.

[sandnsea]

3. The Iraq Death March

Now there's a powerful image that will easily squelch 'cut and run'.

[TomInTib]

5. It's all over now, baby *.

fucker

bastards

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
All your reindeer armies, are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.


Lyrics:
Robert Zimmerman

[ninkasi]

6. They still try to pretend it was about spreading democracy

That was never the real goal. The real goal was to get their hands on the oil, and privatize everything they could. It was about making themselves richer. They use the term spreading democracy, instead of admitting they wanted Iraq as a base, and using that base to seize even more assets from the Middle East. Iran and Syria were to be next. Nobody who knows the slightest about neocons would credit them with truly being champions of a real democracy.

[BikeWriter]

8. ...and democracy can't be forced on them at gunpoint.