|
Alex213
Stranger
Registered: 08/22/05
Posts: 1,839
|
Neocons desert Bush over Iraq
#5379767 - 03/08/06 11:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
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?
Published: 09 March 2006 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.'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article350092.ece
|
Alex213
Stranger
Registered: 08/22/05
Posts: 1,839
|
Re: Neocons desert Bush over Iraq [Re: Alex213]
#5379772 - 03/08/06 11:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
At last, the warmongers are prepared to face the facts and admit they were wrong
It has taken more than three years, tens of thousands of Iraqi and American lives, and $200bn (?115bn) of treasure - all to achieve a chaos verging on open civil war. But, finally, the neo-conservatives who sold the United States on this disastrous war are starting to utter three small words. We were wrong.
The second thoughts have spread across the conservative spectrum, from William Buckley, venerable editor of The National Review to Andrew Sullivan, once editor of the New Republic, now an influential commentator and blogmeister. The patrician conservative columnist George Will was gently sceptical from the outset. He now glumly concludes that all three members of the original "axis of evil" - not only Iran and North Korea but also Iraq - "are more dangerous than when that term was coined in 2002".
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article350104.ece
|
Konnrade
↑↑↓↓<--><-->BA



Registered: 09/13/05
Posts: 13,833
Loc: LA Suburbs
Last seen: 8 months, 26 days
|
Re: Neocons desert Bush over Iraq [Re: Alex213]
#5379839 - 03/09/06 12:01 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
They probably knew it was a bad idea all along, they most likely ignored their common sense and decided to push the issue anyhow.
--------------------
I find your lack of faith disturbing
|
Seuss
Error: divide byzero


Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 23,480
Loc: Caribbean
Last seen: 2 months, 20 days
|
Re: Neocons desert Bush over Iraq [Re: Alex213]
#5380235 - 03/09/06 04:19 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
It isn't that they got it wrong... now that the pot has been stirred and brought to a boil, it is time to pull out the finger before it gets burned. In other words, they (neocons) have gotten exactly what they want... a completely unstable middle east on the edge of an all out regional war leading towards a world war... a world that is upset at Islam... sides set for the final battle, "You are with us or against us"... oil profits at an all time record high... lots of practice... a public that is used to war... a public that is used to being spoon fed by the media... etc...
The big question now is how far to push the instability in the region. Would it be better to have a war during the election to get another neocon stooge elected, or would it be better to wait until after the election? If a left winger gets elected, the problems in the middle east can be blamed on the left. If a right winger gets elected, they "wait" until something happens and then ride the war machine in to save the day and snag the following election as well. (historically, nobody likes to vote out a president during a "noble" war)
-------------------- Just another spore in the wind.
|
afoaf
CEO DBK?


Registered: 11/08/02
Posts: 32,665
Loc: Ripple's Heart
|
Re: Neocons desert Bush over Iraq [Re: Alex213]
#5381155 - 03/09/06 12:34 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
nothing from Hitchens?
-------------------- All I know is The Growery is a place where losers who get banned here go.
|
RandalFlagg
Stranger
Registered: 06/15/02
Posts: 15,608
|
Re: Neocons desert Bush over Iraq [Re: Alex213]
#5382216 - 03/09/06 05:18 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
I've said it before and I'll say it again....what a fucking mess.
|
|