RICKS ON NEO-CON IMBECILES

Ricks gives us more evidence of the criminal incompetence of the neo-cons. He gives us a view from an insider on the idiot Wolfowitz (pp. 30-31):




This recalls Halberstam's comment on Robert McNamara and his people during Vietnam: "They were brilliant and they were fools.”

Foolishness certainly isn't confined to Wolfowitz. Many of the neo-cons are simply out of touch at best and delusional at worst and Ricks (p. 20) gives us a couple more examples. Danielle Pletka, a hack at AEI, in 2004 claimed that "Desert Fox was a sham. ... They did nothing but bomb empty buildings." In July 2003, Richard Perle uttered this nonsense: "They [the Clinton Administration] allowed Saddam over eight years to grow in strength. He was far stronger at the end of Clinton's tenure than at the beginning."

Gen. Zinni provides a direct and knowledgeable rebuttal of war whore Perle (p.13):

"We watched his military shrink to less than half its size from the beginning of the Gulf War until the time I left command, not only shrinking in size, but dealing with obsolete equipment, ill-trained troops, dissatisfaction in the ranks, lots of absenteeism. We didn't see the Iraqis as a formidable force. We saw them as a decaying force."