Embittered Insiders Turn Against Bush

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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.

A certain weary crankiness sets in with any administration after six years. By this point in Bill Clinton's tenure, bitter Democrats were competing to denounce his behavior with an intern even as they were trying to fight off impeachment. Ronald Reagan was deep in the throes of the Iran-contra scandal. But Bush's strained relations with erstwhile friends and allies take on an extra edge of bitterness amid the dashed hopes of the Iraq venture.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/18/AR2006111801076.html

[pretzel4gore]

1. ken adelman=enemy combatant....

the bastard need to do the airdance....

[judaspriestess]

2. thanks dude, a little too late though

and for the congress and senate, I'll borrow from this admins simpleton approach on explaining anything; stupid is as stupid does.

[Hekate]

3. KnR. I hope they fight each other bloody. I hope none of them ever sleeps well again.

So Adelman has "shattered ideals" does he? At least it's a start.

Hekate

[MichiganVote]

4. Shitheads

[gumby]

5. How many citizens even know the name Adelman ?

They should, but they don't because of the M$M.

There is a definite insanity being revealed here. All the neo-cons are now turning on GW because THEIR fantasies didn't come true.

The neo-cons refuse to consider that it is their policies that are flawed. Instead, they try to pretend that the vessel that implemented their wildest desires is the problem.

No, neo-cons, you can throw GW under the bus, but hopefully The People will eventually understand the lethal bottom-line of your "political philosophy."

[IndianaGreen]

6. The war hawks have a twisted notion of what is "good"

Most troubling, he (Adelman) said, are his shattered ideals: "The whole philosophy of using American strength for good in the world, for a foreign policy that is really value-based instead of balanced-power-based, I don't think is disproven by Iraq. But it's certainly discredited."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/18/AR2006111801076_2.html

A lot of people have died for a neocon pipedream. Iraq is the biggest blunder in the history of the USA.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Dolt! Clown! Imbecile! How sick, and perverse CAN these idiots be?

They must be a very hard-drinking bunch, as no one sober can believe a word they say.