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NeoCon Allies Desert Bush Over Iraq
These are the right-wing intellectuals who demanded George Bush
invade Iraq. Now they admit they got it wrong. Are you listening, Mr
President?
03/09/06 "The
Independent" -- --
William Buckley Jnr
INFLUENTIAL CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST AND TV PUNDIT
'One can't doubt the objective in Iraq has failed ... Iraqi
animosities have proved uncontainable by an army of 130,000
Americans. Different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is
the acknowledgement of defeat.'
Francis Fukuyama
AUTHOR AND LONG-TERM ADVOCATE OF TOPPLING SADDAM
'By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling
prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, a training
ground and an operational base for jihadists, with plenty of
American targets to shoot at.'
Richard Perle
ARCH-WARMONGER AND PIVOTAL REPUBLICAN HAWK
'The military campaign and its political aftermath were both
passionately debated within the Bush administration. It got the war
right and the aftermath wrong We should have understood that we
needed Iraqi partners.'
Andrew Sullivan
PROMINENT COMMENTATOR AND INFLUENTIAL BLOGGER
'The world has learnt a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher
for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis ... than for a
few humiliated pundits. The correct response is not more spin but a
sense of shame and sorrow.'
George Will
RIGHT-WING COLUMNIST ON 'THE WASHINGTON POST' AND TV PUNDIT
'Almost three years after the invasion, it is still not certain
whether, or in what sense, Iraq is a nation. And after two elections
and a referendum on the constitution, Iraq barely has a government.'
© 2006 Independent News and Media Limited
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