Know Your Clusterfuck!

[Time to introduce another Morphblogger, who will be holding down some our politics for us. We call him Steve, and he's a Morphizm pal from the LBC to Berkeley. I have an avatar for him on the way. It involves alcohol and clocks. But I just had to include this Vanity Faire shot of Perle, the power-suited Darth.]

I feel so sorry for these guys. I mean, they actually trusted Bush to successfully carry-out their great idea. If only they had found someone smarter and more capable -- wait a minute -- if they had, then we wouldn't have invaded in the first place and the neocon dream would still be alive.

Iraq Neo Culpa
"Three years later, Perle and I meet again, at his home outside Washington, D.C. It is October 2006, the worst month for U.S. casualties in Iraq in nearly two years, and Republicans are bracing for what will prove to be sweeping losses in the upcoming midterm elections. As he looks into my eyes, speaking slowly and with obvious deliberation, Perle is unrecognizable as the confident hawk I once knew. 'The levels of brutality that we've seen are truly horrifying, and I have to say, I underestimated the depravity,' Perle says, adding that total defeat—an American withdrawal that leaves Iraq as an anarchic "failed state"—is not yet inevitable, but is becoming more likely. 'And then," he says, "you'll get all the mayhem that the world is capable of creating...'" READ MORE

Meanwhile, this guy needs to resign immediately.

Meet the new House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Silvestre Reyes
"Reyes stumbled when I asked him a simple question about al Qaeda at the end of a 40-minute interview in his office last week. Members of the Intelligence Committee, mind you, are paid $165,200 a year to know more than basic facts about our foes in the Middle East. We warmed up with a long discussion about intelligence issues and Iraq. And then we veered into terrorism’s major players..." READ MORE