On the good ship SS Neocon it's everyman for himself

With the Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight at the helm this was bound to happen eventually but the timing is certainly curious. As much as the neocon glitterati might believe in themselves more than they believe in George Bush one would think that they would have at least waited until after the election to turn on him.

No less a luminary than "The Prince of Darkness" himself, Richard Perle, along with other leading neocons, has been interviewed in Vanity Fair and provides a perfectly adequate Lady Macbeth impersonation attempting to scrub the metaphoric blood of thousands off of his hands. I least he is a bit more honest than Bush and he admits, with perfect hindsight, that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake but one also gets the sense that he is actually saying: "It still would have turned out OK if Bush had followed MY instructions to the letter".

Kenneth Adelman, Michael Rubin and David Frum are among other of the neocon wolf pack to cast the "Dear Leader" adrift in the article with Adelman finally seeing what many of us have seen since day one, that Bush and his cronies are completely inept:

"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."

I couldn't have said it better myself.

The Vanity Fair article may be found here.