Washington Post; "Embittered Insiders Turn Against Bush"; Baker; Nov 2006

Even some fellow-war-architects turn against Bush on the management of the war. Republicans angry at the midterm defeat--feel if Rumsfeld had been fired earlier, the election would have gone differently. Perle: "If I had know n that hte US was going to essentially establish an occupation, then I'd say, 'Let's not do it,' and instead find another way to target Hussein." Though some say these neocons are just trying to avoid culpability for the war.

Adelman "The whole philoscopy of using American strength for good in hte world, for a foreign policy that is really value-based instead of balanced-power-based, I don't think is disproven by Iraq. But its certainly discredited."