Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute freedom scholar:
"Ask yourself who the most powerful people in the White House are. They are women who are in love with the president: Laura (Bush), Condi, Harriet Miers, and Karen Hughes."(IOW - let's blame the mess of the Bush Administration on any prominent woman with any connection to Bush :eyes: )
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612?currentPage=2This Vanity Fair article is pretty funny - how the neoconservatives are trying to pretend they had nothing to do with anything. :crazy:
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...."Some interesting quotes from Adelman:
Adelman believes that neoconservatism itself—what he defines as
"the idea of a tough foreign policy on behalf of morality, the idea of using our power for moral good in the world"—is dead, at least for a generation. After Iraq, he says, "it's not going to sell."&
"The most dispiriting and awful moment of the whole administration was the day that Bush gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to (former C.I.A. director) George Tenet, General Tommy Franks, and (Coalition Provisional Authority chief) Jerry (Paul) Bremer—three of the most incompetent people who've ever served in such key spots. And they get the highest civilian honor a president can bestow on anyone! That was the day I checked out of this administration. It was then I thought, There's no seriousness here, these are not serious people. If he had been serious, the president would have realized that those three are each directly responsible for the disaster of Iraq."