We're in Iraq Because the Neocons are Chumps

In Washington, reality settles in.

Washington Post:

The
weekend after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell, Kenneth Adelman and a
couple of other promoters of the Iraq war gathered at Vice President
Cheney's residence to celebrate. The invasion had been the "cakewalk"
Adelman predicted. Cheney and his guests raised their glasses, toasting
President Bush and victory. "It was a euphoric moment," Adelman
recalled.

Forty-three months later, the cakewalk looks more like
a death march, and Adelman has broken with the Bush team. He had an
angry falling-out with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld this fall.
He and Cheney are no longer on speaking terms. And he believes that
"the president is ultimately responsible" for what Adelman now calls
"the debacle that was Iraq."

Adelman, a former Reagan
administration official and onetime member of the Iraq war brain trust,
is only the latest voice from inside the Bush circle to speak out
against the president or his policies. Heading into the final chapter
of his presidency, fresh from the sting of a midterm election defeat,
Bush finds himself with fewer and fewer friends. Some of the strongest
supporters of the war have grown disenchanted, former insiders are
registering public dissent and Republicans on Capitol Hill blame him
for losing Congress.

Yeah, sucks to be you guys.
After all, it's not like you were out there selling the war and calling
anyone who was skeptical about it unpatriotic, right?

The truth
is that the GOP haven't been right about one damned thing in this war.
Not a single reason for this war has turned out to be true, nothing
that's happened since the invasion -- other than dethroning Saddam
Hussein -- has turned out as advertised, and Iraq is a smoking hole...