In November surprise, top cheerleaders of Iraq war abandon Bush
"President George W. Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and
others, was nothing short of "incompetent."
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by Maxim Kniazkov
Sat Nov 4, 12:37 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - And now they have had a change of heart. Only three
days before a crucial congressional election in which Republicans are
poised to suffer heavy losses, top US neoconservatives, who had cheered
the US invasion of Iraq, admitted that the operation may not
have been that necessary, after all.
In separate interviews with Vanity Fair magazine, former top
Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, White House speechwriter David Frum and
Reagan administration arms control negotiator Kenneth Adelman continued
to insist that toppling the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein
was a noble thing to have done.
But they argued that the execution of the plan by President
George W. Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others, was
nothing short of "incompetent."