A Call Goes Out To The Honest Republicans
The Washington Monthly’s Kevin Drum has a round-up of quotes from hawks and neocons who are slowly but surely joining the ranks of us Bush bashers, including:
Andrew Sullivan: “The one anti-war argument that, in retrospect, I did not take seriously enough was a simple one. It was that this war was noble and defensible but that this administration was simply too incompetent and arrogant to carry it out effectively. I dismissed this as facile Bush-bashing at the time. I was wrong. I sensed the hubris of this administration after the fall of Baghdad, but I didn’t sense how they would grotesquely under-man the post-war occupation, bungle the maintenance of security, short-change an absolutely vital mission, dismiss constructive criticism, ignore even their allies (like the Brits), and fail to shift swiftly enough when events span out of control.”
Robert Kagan and William Kristol: “The Bush administration seems not to recognize how widespread, and how bipartisan, is the view that Iraq is already lost or on the verge of being lost. The administration therefore may not appreciate how close the whole nation is to tipping decisively against the war.”
Drum concludes: “I wonder how many honest Republicans there are out there who will come to the same conclusion this year and decide, no matter how much they like his principles, that George Bush is just not up to the job?”.
