ANOTHER DAGGER INTO THE SOUL OF THE GOP

OLD MEDIA DOES A GOOD JOB, FOR ONCE---- probably only because they have a chance to make Bush look bad (Sunday's rebuttals cast doubt on the veracity of this piece.) This Vanity Fair link from Drudge will not be up for very long, but read the interviews with Richard Pearle and other neo-cons. Bottom line; they think Bush is incompetent, that Rumsfeld fooled them all. Then, Richard Pearle:

......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."

David Frum, the former White House speechwriter who co-wrote Bush's 2002 State of the Union address that accused Iraq of being part of an "axis of evil," adds that the Administration is dysfunctional.

it now looks as if defeat may be inescapable, because "the insurgency has proven it can kill anyone who cooperates, and the United States and its friends have failed to prove that it can protect them." This situation, he says, must ultimately be blamed on "failure at the center"—starting with President Bush.

Then Adelman, in a separate interview:

"I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national-security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent. They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional. The policy can be absolutely right, and noble, beneficial, but if you can't execute it, it's useless,

"The most dispiriting and awful moment of the whole administration was the day that Bush gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to [former C.I.A. director] George Tenet, General Tommy Franks, and [Coalition Provisional Authority chief] Jerry [Paul] Bremer—three of the most incompetent people who've ever served in such key spots. And they get the highest civilian honor a president can bestow on anyone! That was the day I checked out of this administration. It was then I thought, There's no seriousness here, these are not serious people."

Remember, these interviews are with formerly staunch Administration top dogs. The women in the White House come off as buffoons, but no surprise there. The link will not be up for long, get over there pronto. Vanity Fair deserves a tip of the hat.