A Tough Time for 'Neocons'

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-na-neocons10jun10,1,2931136,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

As U.S. tanks surrounded Baghdad 14 months ago, an ardent group of war supporters in Washington toasted the success of an invasion they had done much to inspire, as commentators spoke of their virtual takeover of the Bush administration's foreign policy.

Today, that same group, the neoconservatives, is itself under siege.

Many fellow conservatives have joined liberals in criticizing their case for the war. Rivals in the State Department and the Pentagon have taken charge of the U.S. effort in Iraq. And in a grave threat to their reputation, Iraqi exile leader Ahmad Chalabi, a longtime favorite of neoconservatives, is enmeshed in an FBI investigation of alleged intelligence leaks that supplied secrets to Iran.

"As these events have come one after the other, they've been feeling more and more embattled," said a Republican Senate aide.

"Neocons" — best known for advocating aggressive foreign and military policies — are in the painful zone between distinction and disfavor in Washington. They are losing battles on Capitol Hill. Their principles have stopped appearing in new U.S. policies. And where neoconservatives were once seen as having a future in Republican administrations, the setbacks in Iraq could make it difficult for the group's leading members to win Senate confirmation for top posts in the future.

[yardwork]

1. Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people.

I hope they get run out of town on a rail.

[opihimoimoi]

2. tarred/feathered too

:chuckles:

[bluestateguy]

3. A bunch of slimy little chickenhawks

I fantasize about bringing back the draft and conscripting their kids into Iraq. Then I come to my senses and realize that it never works out that way.

[cliss]

4. What a cosmic joke.

Picture this: more than 20 years ago, a youthful Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Dick Cheney and even "baby" Jeb Bush. They sharpened their pencils and let their imagination go. They drew up plots, fantasized until their heads hurt. When they had a game plan, they rolled up their blueprints and started knocking on the White House door. Clinton was living there at the time, and he shooed them away like pesky salesmen.

The PNAC has had plans for world domination that has only strengthened with time. When Bush/Cheney slithered up the steps to the White House, they knew their moment had arrived.

They finally had their chance to prove their infallible plans of invincibility.

We've been at it for -- what a little over a year now? And their grandiose plans have already been flushed down the toilet by the Washington "in-crowd".

Imagine that - 20 years in the making, and 1 year to fail. That's got to feel like shit.

Sorry Paul, go back to the drawing board.

[Manix]

5. ..a despicable bunch of phoney patriots.....bastards!!

[WhiteTara]

6. When Do We Get To Call It TREASON?

AND ISN'T THE PENALTY DEATH?

[Ogden]

7. I think only Ann the Man Coulter gets to call it Treason

sorry.