ATTENTION NEOCON FREEPS: Your Day Has Come!! Re: Neocons Say We FAILED!

[Dr. Jones]

Rupert Cornwell: At last, the warmongers are prepared to face the facts and admit they were wrong
Published: 09 March 2006

It has taken more than three years, tens of thousands of Iraqi and American lives, and $200bn (£115bn) of treasure - all to achieve a chaos verging on open civil war. But, finally, the neo-conservatives who sold the United States on this disastrous war are starting to utter three small words. We were wrong.

The second thoughts have spread across the conservative spectrum, from William Buckley, venerable editor of The National Review to Andrew Sullivan, once editor of the New Republic, now an influential commentator and blogmeister. The patrician conservative columnist George Will was gently sceptical from the outset. He now glumly concludes that all three members of the original "axis of evil" - not only Iran and North Korea but also Iraq - "are more dangerous than when that term was coined in 2002".

Neither Mr Buckley nor Mr Sullivan concedes that the decision to topple Saddam was intrinsically wrong. But "the challenge required more than deployable resources," the former sadly recognises. "The American objective in Iraq has failed."

Source: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article350104.ece

[AX10]

1. Neo-Cons will never admit that they are wrong.

[warrens]

3. Fukyomama did.

And said he would have nothing more to do with them.

[Swamp Rat]

10. Here is Fukuyama admitting failure in a video clip:

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Fukuyama-on-Coun.mov

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

2. a hundred bucks they'll backpedal

& say it's the Democrat's fault. You know, we undermined the cause & gave comfort & aid to the enemy, blah, blah, blah.

I guess I'm too cynical.

[dogday]

4. Not Cynical-Just looking at what they do with

a realistic attitude.. They do turn around and blame us for the messes, why should this be any different?

[redqueen]

5. Buckley can hem and haw all he wants... it WAS WRONG... period!

If poppy and crew knew then that it required more than we had, then what made these guys think we could do it now, with less?

Answer: the donations from Halliburton, Bechtel, et al, that's what.

[BuyingThyme]

6. Meanwhile, Rumsfeld & Cheney still have their jobs.

They're doing a heckuva job with their puppet, and innocent, wonderful people are still being murdered.

[jane_pippin]

7. Clap. Clap. Ca-lap...It's nice and all, but my eyes are rolling so far

back in my head that I'm not sure I'll ever see straight again.

I'm happy to see that they can admit they are wrong but you know what that means? (Yes, you do). It means a great many of us were right all along. (See, you knew!) Oh, but that's not news. Wasn't news when the drum up to war started, isn't news now either. Oh no. Not when the world's slowest working light bulb finally musters up enough energy to enlighten these all-stars to the fact that their policies are responsible for this colossal fuck-up and thousands of casualties. That's news. That's when attention must be paid. Riiiight. Unbefuckinlievable.

I really am happy to see them finally get it--better late than never--but I'm not going to get my panties in a congratulatory twist over it either. (I'll let the media do that for me). :eyes:

Anyway, way to go. Way. To. Go. I won't hold my breath waiting for an apology.

[Jara sang]

8. Those jack offs at Free republic aren't true neocons anyway.

You have to be a policy wonk or Beltway insider to be a real neocon. Those jack offs at Free Republic and other Republicans that are calling themselves "neocon" don't affect policy, they just wish they did.

[Roland99]

9. Related article >>>>>

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article350092.ece

And the GD: P thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2502542