Conservative Crackup
by EYAL PRESS
[from the November 14, 2005 issue]
Religious conservatives and neocons furious about the nomination of Harriet Miers. Foreign policy realists blasting the Administration about Iraq. Libertarians irate about the explosion of government spending on the GOP's watch. It's open season on the Bush Administration, and lately some of the most heated salvos have been coming from the right. In a much discussed speech delivered in Washington recently, Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff at the State Department from 2001 to '05, assailed the "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal" that has hijacked US foreign policy, saying, "The case that I saw over four-plus years was a case I have never seen in my studies of aberrations, bastardizations, perturbations, changes to the national security decision-making process." In the latest New Yorker former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft is no less damning, saying of Iraq, "This was said to be part of the war on terror, but Iraq feeds terrorism."...http://tinyurl.com/8d34d
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