Architect of Iraq disaster defects

Richard Perle "rolls over" on Bush Bird/Cheney Monster! Who's
next....Wolfowitz? Condom Rice? The rats are fleeing a sinking tub!

Just goes to show ya...rightards are THE most unreliable, disgusting,
disloyal 'tards of all:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061104/...s_iraq_critics

Conservatives challenge Iraq policy
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer 6 minutes ago

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.

Meanwhile, the Military Times Media Group, a Gannett Co. subsidiary
that publishes Army Times and other military-oriented periodicals,
said
Friday it was calling for Bush to fire Rumsfeld. An editorial due to
be
published Monday says active-duty military leaders are beginning to
voice misgivings about the war's planning and execution and dimming
prospects for success. It declares that "Rumsfeld has lost credibility
with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with
the public at large."

The editorial concludes by saying that regardless of which party wins
in next week's election, the time has come "to face the hard bruising
truth: Donald Rumsfeld must go."

When asked about the Vanity Fair article and Perle's criticism, White
House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said, "We appreciate the
Monday-morning
quarterbacking, but the president has a plan to succeed in Iraq and we
are going forward with it."

Other prominent conservatives criticized the administration's conduct
of the war in the article, including Kenneth Adelman, who also served
on the Defense Policy Board that informally advised President Bush.
Adelman said he was "crushed" by the performance of Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld.

The critiques in Vanity Fair come as growing numbers of Republicans
have criticized Bush's policies on Iraq. The war, unpopular with many
Americans, has become a top-tier issue in next week's congressional
elections.

Perle said "you have to hold the president responsible" because he
didn't recognize "disloyalty" by some in the administration. He said
the White House's National Security Council, then run by now-Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice, did not serve Bush properly.

A year before the war, Adelman predicted demolishing Saddam's military
power and liberating Iraq would be a "cakewalk." But he told the
magazine he was mistaken in his high opinion of Bush's national
security .

"They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the postwar
era," he said. "Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous
flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional."