by Maxim Kniazkov
AFP Sat Nov 4, 2006 WASHINGTON - And now they have had a change of heart. Only three days before a crucial congressional election in which Republicans are poised to suffer heavy losses, top US neoconservatives, who had cheered the US invasion of Iraq, admitted that the operation may not have been that necessary, after all.
In separate interviews with Vanity Fair magazine, former top Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, White House speechwriter David Frum and Reagan administration arms control negotiator Kenneth Adelman continued to insist that toppling the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein was a noble thing to have done. But they argued that the execution of the plan by President George W. Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others, was nothing short of "incompetent." Comment: Let's think about this: Richard Perle, who is as big a Neocon and Zionist as you will find anywhere, now says that Bush and Rumsfeld are incompetent and that maybe the US should have pursued other means of handling Iraq.
Well, the fact is that unless Perle is a complete idiot, a diplomatic solution to the Iraq problem would most certainly have occurred to him and his gang years ago before Gulf War II. Plus, as we have seen, the invasion of Iraq had nothing at all to do with Saddam's imaginary WMD's, and Perle knows it. Nevertheless, Perle himself was instrumental in pushing for war against Iraq. Despite the blatant hypocrisy, it is most interesting that he has chosen this particular point in time to come out gunning for Bush and Rummy... |
By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer Sat Nov 4, 2006 WASHINGTON - A leading conservative proponent of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq now says dysfunction within the Bush administration has turned U.S. policy there into a disaster.
Richard Perle, who chaired a committee of Pentagon policy advisers early in the Bush administration, said had he seen at the start of the war in 2003 where it would go, he probably would not have advocated an invasion to depose Saddam Hussein. Perle was an assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan. "I probably would have said, 'Let's consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists,'" he told Vanity Fair magazine in its upcoming January issue. |
NationalReview.com
November 5, 2006 Editor's Note: On Friday, Vanity Fair issued a press release highlighting excerpts of a piece in their January issue on "neoconservative" supporters of the war in Iraq who today, unsurprisingly, have some negative things to say about how the war is going and how the Bush administration has been handling it.
In the wake of the press release - which has gotten considerable play on the Internet - some of those "neoconservatives" highlighted in the article have responded to the excerpts and its misrepresentations, in some cases, of what they said. We collect some of those reactions - including from Eliot Cohen, David Frum, Frank Gaffney, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and Michael Rubin - below. N.B. This symposium has been amended since posting (to include additional respondents). - KJL Comment: These men were instrumental in bringing about the invasion and occupation of Iraq. They understand exactly how to use the media to further their ends. First they claim they were quoted out of context, and then they say they didn't think the interviews would be published until January, after the elections?? Please...
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AFP
Sat Nov 4, 2006 WASHINGTON - Four US military newspapers catering to all the branches of the US armed forces will reportedly publish an editorial on the eve of the November 7 congressional election, demanding the resignation of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
An advance copy of the article titled "Time for Rumsfeld to Go" was obtained by the NBC News and posed on its website late Friday. It is scheduled for simultaneous publication Monday by the Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times, the network said. |
By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press Sat Nov 4, 2006 WASHINGTON - The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue.
In its "Desert Crossing" games, 70 military, diplomatic and intelligence officials assumed the high troop levels would be needed to keep order, seal borders and take care of other security needs. The documents came to light Saturday through a Freedom of Information Act request by the George Washington University's National Security Archive, an independent research institute and library. |
By COLLEEN SLEVIN
Associated Press November 6, 2006 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Members of the New Life Church were stunned and brought to tears by the Rev. Ted Haggard's confessions of "sexual immorality," then accepted his plea for forgiveness with open arms.
Haggard apologized Sunday in a letter read from the pulpit of the 14,000-member church he founded. Comment: Some interesting excerpts in light of tomorrow's US elections:
Jones, who said he is gay, said he came forward because he was upset when he discovered who Haggard was and that New Life opposed same-sex marriage - a key issue in Colorado, with a pair of issues on Tuesday's ballot. [...]It's bad news everywhere for the Bush gang. |
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Associated Press Sun Nov 5, 2006 |
Reuters
Sun Nov 5, 2006 WASHINGTON - The New York Times, one of the oldest and most respected U.S. newspapers, said on Sunday that for the first time in memory it was endorsing no Republican U.S. congressional candidates this year.
In an editorial, the Times criticized the Republican-led Congress on matters from tax cuts to energy policy, and charged it has failed to hold President Bush accountable for the unpopular Iraq War. "This election is indeed about George W. Bush -- and the congressional majority's insistence on protecting him from the consequences of his mistakes and misdeeds," the Times editorialized. |
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JIM RUTENBERG
The New York Times November 6, 2006 WASHINGTON - President Bush on Sunday seized on the conviction of Saddam Hussein as a milestone in Iraq, seeking to rally Republican voters with the issue of national security as some polls suggested that his party might be making gains in the final hours of the campaign.
The White House said the timing of the announcement, two days before Election Day, had nothing to do with American politics and had been dictated by the Iraqi court. But Mr. Bush moved quickly to put it to use in what has been his central strategic imperative over the past week, trying to rouse Republican voters to turn out. |
By CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press Sun Nov 5, 2006 WASHINGTON - Government of the people, by the people, will be missing a lot of people Election Day.
It's a persistent riddle in a country that thinks of itself as the beacon of democracy. Why do so few share the light? Compare U.S. voting with foreign voting and it's not a pretty sight. Americans are less apt to vote than are people in other old democracies, in new ones, in dangerous places, dirt poor ones, freezing cold ones, stinking hot ones and highly dysfunctional ones. Even that theocratic "axis of evil," Iran, has bragging rights over the United States in this regard. So does chaotic Iraq, where an estimated 70 percent of voters cast ballots in December parliamentary elections. |
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