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.

The full article is due to come out in the December issue of Vanity Fair. Read the quotes on page 2 & 3 of this article...

Update: A number of people quoted are unhappy about it. Apparently, they were promised nothing having to do with this article was going to be released ahead of the mid-term election.

Kenneth Adelman:

"The most dispiriting and awful moment of the whole administration was the day that Bush gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to [former CIA director] George Tenet, General Tommy Franks, and [Coalition Provisional Authority chief] Jerry [Paul] Bremer -- three of the most incompetent people who've ever served in such key spots. And they get the highest civilian honor a president can bestow on anyone!

That was the day I checked out of this administration.

It was then I thought, There's no seriousness here, these are not serious people.

If he had been serious, the president would have realized that those three are each directly responsible for the disaster of Iraq."

Remember this?

The fact that the President gives these people personal audience is troubling. They are not serious people. Does the president take them seriously? Does he take their counsel?