Richard Perle resigns

[Bradford DeLong]

Oh. But this is more than just an astroturf-generating spin job by a 
bureaucratic enemy. This is a genuine mass spontaneous popular 
uprising among Washington insiders: the peasants of the CIA, the 
workers in the Pentagon D-Ring, assisted by the petty-bourgeoisie of 
retired generals and the craftsmen and craftswomen of the press, all 
assembled in a furious mob to hang the Principals of the Bush NSC 
from the nearest lamppost using the guts of the last neoconservative 
and the last revolution-in-military-affairs theorist.

I think the odds that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and their friends on the 
NSC staff are toast have just crossed 50-50...

Brad DeLong


>>From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
>>
>>... As Fran Leibowitz once noted, it's not whether you win or lose, 
>>it's how you lay the blame.
>
>[Financial Times:]
>
>... Insiders who have spoken with senior Pentagon officials, 
>particularly the army top brass, said there was growing anger 
>directed at Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, who, the officials 
>say, dismissed their efforts to include heavier ground forces in the 
>field before an invasion.
>
>Mr Rumsfeld has denied these accusations, insisting the war plan 
>followed thorough consultation with senior uniformed officers. ...
>
><http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1048313254347&p=1012571727088>
>
>[NY Times editorial:]
>
>... Disturbingly, intelligence officials revealed that military 
>planners and intelligence analysts had warned that the invasion 
>would face stiff resistance from hard-core paramilitary units but 
>had been ignored by the Pentagon's more optimistic leadership. ...
>
><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28FRI2.html>
>
>Carl