No longer a cakewalk

``The greatest strategic disaster in American history''

Despite the efforts of his slippery mouthpiece Tony Snow, President Bush is losing even Kenneth ``Cakewalk'' Adelman and Richard ``Darth Vader'' Perle on Iraq:

Neo Culpa
As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence. In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman, David Frum, and others play the blame game with shocking frankness. Target No. 1: the president himself.

ADELMAN: I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national-security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent. 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.

PERLE: The levels of brutality that we've seen are truly horrifying, and I have to say, I underestimated the depravity....[Bush] did not make decisions, in part because the machinery of government that he nominally ran was actually running him.

Perle also worries about ``total defeat'' and America leaving Iraq a ``failed state.'' Good Lord, if Bush has lost these guys...

Note: This post sat in draft purgatory for a couple of days.