Neocons: It's BUSH'S fault

The idiotic right-wing academics who call themselves "neocons," and had all these dumbass theories for changing the world on paper, despite having no actual experience in the real world, being a pack of sheltered ivory-tower nerds, are now blaming Bush for the results of their moronic pipe-dreams.

Not that it ISN"T his fault. It's ALL of their faults.

Vanity Fair has an article (nicely titled "Neo Culpa" - wish I'd thought of that) about it.

Some nuggets:

Richard Perle: "The decisions did not get made that should have been. They didn't get made in a timely fashion, and the differences were argued out endlessly.… At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible.… I don't think he realized the extent of the opposition within his own administration, and the disloyalty."

Kenneth Adelman, a lifelong neocon activist and Pentagon insider who served on the Defense Policy Board until 2005.: "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 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. If he had been serious, the president would have realized that those three are each directly responsible for the disaster of Iraq."

David Frum, the speechwriter who wrote Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech: "I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything."

And look at that last quote from the speechwriter and think of what it says about the Bush White House. David Frum is a speechwriter, and he apparently thought that he was supposed to be the source of Bush's IDEAS. Not the words, the actual IDEAS. A speechwriter.

And he could only have gotten that impression from the White House itself, which must have given him the impression that the ideas of governance were NOT to come from Bush, but from the P.R. men.