ultimate responsibility (reprinted without permission)
In the following article we hear the beginnings of the pinning of the war on boy george, the half-wit, ill-educated, bible-thumping fool elected president of the U.S. a mere six years ago. The strident power-mad neocons who beat the war drums are hanging their token leader out to dry, knowing full well the American people pity the mentally impaired and are foolish enough to allow the machinery of modern distraction to sweep the matter out of conciousness without any serious attempt to find and hold responsible the true architects of this shameful period. With a little luck (good for them, bad for most of humanity), the damage the religio-facists and the neocons have done to America's reputation and to world-wide efforts toward civilization will last several generations at least.
So it goes.
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Key allies turn on wounded Bush over chaos in Iraq
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 20 November 2006
In the aftermath of the Republicans' disastrous mid-term election results, President George Bush is becoming increasingly isolated from his former political allies, who are turning on him over the failure to stem the chaos and violence in Iraq. Many have said that had they known in March 2003 what they know now they would have advised against the invasion.
In recent days, Kenneth Adelman, a member of the Defence Policy Board and the man who in 2003 predicted that the military operation to oust Saddam Hussein would be a "cakewalk", has joined the chorus of conservative voices criticising Mr Bush. In a series of interviews he has said the "President isultimately responsible ... for the debacle that was Iraq".
Mr Adelman's criticism is significant because he was considered one of theadministration's inner circle that was planning and pushing the war in Iraq and was particularly close to Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, and the soon-to-be-replaced Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. He predicted that WMD would be discovered near Saddam's birthplace, Tikrit, and in an opinion piece for a newspaper before the invasion, he wrote: "I believe that demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk."
Yet his view now - three-and-a-half years into a conflictt hat has cost the lives of more than 2,800 US troops, around 120 British soldiers and perhaps 655,000 Iraqis - is that the administration has made aseries of unnecessary and avoidable mistakes.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1998825.ece
