The Empire 42

De Bush Bende ligt onder vuur van onder andere de eigen pro-Israel lobby die de VS in een moeras heeft geholpen:

'VANITY FAIR EXCLUSIVE: NOW THEY TELL US
Neo Culpa

As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters
have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their
grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence. In a
series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman, David
Frum, and others play the blame game with shocking frankness. Target
No. 1: the president himself.

I remember sitting with Richard Perle in his suite at London's
Grosvenor House hotel and receiving a private lecture on the
importance of securing victory in Iraq. "Iraq is a very good
candidate for democratic reform," he said. "It won't be Westminster
overnight, but the great democracies of the world didn't achieve the
full, rich structure of democratic governance overnight. The Iraqis
have a decent chance of succeeding." Perle seemed to exude the scent
of liberation, as well as a whiff of gunpowder. It was February 2003,
and Operation Iraqi Freedom, the culmination of his long campaign on
behalf of regime change in Iraq, was less than a month away. Three years later, Perle and I meet again at his home outside
Washington, D.C. It is October, the worst month for U.S. casualties
in Iraq in almost two years, and Republicans are bracing for losses
in the upcoming midterm elections. As he looks into my eyes, speaking
slowly and with obvious deliberation, Perle is unrecognizable as the
confident hawk who, as chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy
Board Advisory Committee, had invited the exiled Iraqi dissident
Ahmad Chalabi to its first meeting after 9/11. "The levels of
brutality that we've seen are truly horrifying, and I have to say, I
underestimated the depravity," Perle says now, adding that total
defeat - an American withdrawal that leaves Iraq as an anarchic
"failed state" - is not yet inevitable but is becoming more likely.
"And then," says Perle, "you'll get all the mayhem that the world is
capable of creating."'

Lees verder: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612