Has anyone taken a look at what the cabal of neocons are saying in Vanity Fair? They are taking on the Bush administration BIG time. Lets take a look at a few clips:
Richard Perle: “In the administration that I served [Perle was an assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan], there was a one-sentence description of the decision-making process when consensus could not be reached among disputatious departments: ‘The president makes the decision.’ [Bush] did not make decisions, in part because the machinery of government that he nominally ran was actually running him. The National Security Council was not serving [Bush] properly. He regarded [then National-Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice] as part of the family.”
Nothing much new here to those of us that have been watching. But a pretty big dig at Bush about the “machinery of government” running “the decider.” And what’s this about Condi? Well, it gets worse.
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.”
Sounds about right, when the going gets bad – blame the women. But what’s this about them being the most powerful people in the White House? No one told the repugs that when they elected Bush, the women would run the place – what an outrage!! But of course, its only because they are “in love with the president.”
But what do they think about those “powerless” men in the administration?
Kenneth Adelman: “The problem here is not a selling job. The problem is a performance job…. Rumsfeld has said that the war could never be lost in Iraq, it could only be lost in Washington. I don’t think that’s true at all. We’re losing in Iraq…. I’ve worked with [Rumsfeld] three times in my life. I’ve been to each of his houses, in Chicago, Taos, Santa Fe, Santo Domingo, and Las Vegas. I’m very, very fond of him, but I’m crushed by his performance. Did he change, or were we wrong in the past? Or is it that he was never really challenged before? I don’t know. He certainly fooled me.”
Oops, Rumsfled fooled the neocons.
David Rose with Vanity Fair says there’s more to come in the January edition. But its interesting that these clips come out in the public sphere now. So, what do you all think is going on here? Looks pretty clear like its “jump ship” time.
apoplectic about it all. My favourite quote:
Gotta love it when the authors of the plan push the blame for failure off on the persons they hand picked to implement it. There’s no deep water to found in the vicinity of any of them.
I did have a bit of trouble trying to decide which of those choice quotes to include. I’m glad you added one. And I just love this line:
There’s no deep water to found in the vicinity of any of them.
Scapegoat at the ready for the Hague or other criminal prosections… pretzel wasn’t in the loop, just like ronnie wasn’t.
Throw the black woman under the bus and move on. Nothing to see here, we tried to give her a shot, and well, you can’t find good help these days.
my 2 cents.
I said over in another thread that prosecuting Bush for war crimes is sort of like prosecuting Charlie McCarthy for something Edgar Bergen did. But that’s not entirely true, of course; Charlie had no personality independent of anything Bergen did. We are supposed to be a nation of laws, and the law says the President — not the people who greased the skids for him to get into office, or the people who are telling him what to do behind the scenes — is the commander in chief, and he’s the guy responsible.
But that doesn’t mean the rest of the whole sorry lot of them shouldn’t be brought to justice for what they’ve done, and held up as an example for future generations of what not to do.
It’s always the chicks fault.
When the rats jump overboard, you KNOW the ship is “goin DOWN, man!”
I think Bush has finally played out his long and privileged run of being given anything and everything he wanted, just because it looked like something “fun to do,” then procceding to systematically f*ck it up, AND still be rescued, comforted and protected from all consequences by Mommy and Daddys’s powerful “Bush Dynasty”.
I think these sleeazy self serving, power mad empire builders were thinking they had the perfect patsy to put in office to make it all play thier way, and they screwed up big time, by choosing an unstable, socopathic egomaniac for the job, that they literally could NOT control, not once he had a good taste of the ultimate kind of power. : Presidential Power. This man is simply not, nor has he ever been, a totally psychologically intact, fully functional and reliably responsible human being. Now, I am no longer sure he is even truly sane.
So. Now we all will pay the price for his Presidency, for untold years to come. So much for allowing big money to run, and ruin, our government.
This man is simply not, nor has he ever been, a totally psychologically intact, fully functional and reliably responsible human being. Now, I am no longer sure he is even truly sane.
Thank you for so succinctly stating what I have felt since 1999, but have struggled to express.
And we can also thank the Rethuglicans that, if we were to have a dictator to ram their policies down our throat, he would be as incompetent. Little favours and all that …