Neocons reverse course ... breaking ranks with GWB!

Richard Perle (left) and most leading conservatives (most among the "neocon" branch of conservatives) are dissing President Bush and his Administration's handling of the Iraq War. In an upcoming Vanity Fair interview they are pretty serious in their opposition to the war and its management. Richard Perle, a leading Iraq War advocate three years ago, has stated that he would never have been an advocate had he known then what he knows now ... just how badly the "war" has turned out for both the US and Iraq.

Perle had been the chairman of the Defense Advisory Board in 2003 and was a leading proponent of the war at the time. The Vanity Fair article and editorial states emphatically that both the war and its primary supporter, Donald Rumsfeld, have "lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large."

Another Board member put it more succinctly, describing the President's foreign policy team as "dysfunctional." Fortunately for the Republican candidates on Tuesday, this editorial won't be seen by most Vanity Fair readers until after the Midterm Elections, and many will still be spellbound on Tuesday by both President Bush's insistence that we will win the war in Iraq and Secretary Rumsfeld's statement that the war is going "splendidly."