NeoCon Allies Desert Bush Over Iraq

William Buckley Jnr INFLUENTIAL CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST AND TV PUNDIT 'One can't doubt the objective in Iraq has failed ... Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an army of 130,000 Americans. Different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.' Francis Fukuyama AUTHOR AND LONG-TERM ADVOCATE OF TOPPLING SADDAM 'By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, a training ground and an operational base for jihadists, with plenty of American targets to shoot at.' Richard Perle ARCH-WARMONGER AND PIVOTAL REPUBLICAN HAWK 'The military campaign and its political aftermath were both passionately debated within the Bush administration. It got the war right and the aftermath wrong We should have understood that we needed Iraqi partners.' http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article350092.ece

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