Charles Krauthammer, today:
The decision to go to war was made by a war cabinet consisting of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld. No one in that room could even remotely be considered a neoconservative.
Key participants in the Project for the New American Century and their positions in the Bush administration at the start of the war in Iraq:
Richard Cheney, Vice-President
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State
John Bolton, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
Elliot Abrams, Senior Director for Near East, Southwest Asian, and North African Affairs, National Security Council
James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence; member Defense Policy Board
Lewis Libby, Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice-President
Whaddaya say, Charles, are PNAC leaders neocons?
The funny part is, Krauthammer’s column is a lengthy attack on George Tenet, who Krauthammer accuses of trying to “rewrite history.”
George Tenet has a very mixed legacy. On the one hand, he presided over the two biggest intelligence failures of this era — Sept. 11 and the WMD debacle in Iraq. On the other hand, his CIA did devise and carry out brilliantly an astonishingly bold plan to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan. Tenet might have just left it at that, gone home with his Presidential Medal of Freedom and let history judge him.
Instead, he’s decided to do some judging of his own. In his just-released book, and while hawking it on television, Tenet presents himself as a pathetic victim and scapegoat of an administration that was hellbent on going to war, slam dunk or not.
Tenet writes as if he assumes no one remembers anything…. Everyone has the right to renounce past views. But not to make up that past. It is beyond brazen to think that one can get away with inventing not ancient history but what everyone saw and read with their own eyes just a few years ago.
The irony is rich.
Can someone explain to me how Krauthammer continues to be a columnist for one of the nation’s leading newspapers?
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