Neocon war boosters blame Bush for Iraq failure. Bush is being tossed to the lions by his own people.

"The decisions did not get made that should have been. They didn't get made in a timely fashion, and the differences were argued out endlessly.… At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible.… I don't think he realized the extent of the opposition within his own administration, and the disloyalty."

"the insurgency has proven it can kill anyone who cooperates, and the United States and its friends have failed to prove that it can protect them." This situation, he says, must ultimately be blamed on "failure at the center"—starting with President Bush.

"I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national-security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent. They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional."

"The most dispiriting and awful moment of the whole administration was the day that Bush gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to [former C.I.A. 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!

"I wouldn't be surprised if what we end up drifting toward is some sort of withdrawal on some sort of timetable and leaving the place in a pretty ghastly mess.… I do think it's going to end up encouraging various strands of Islamism, both Shia and Sunni, and probably will bring de-stabilization of some regimes of a more traditional kind, which already have their problems

The above quotes do not come from Democrats, or anti-war protestors, they come from the very men who helped sell the idea of invading Iraq to this President. Many of them are concerned with being blamed for this debacle and want history to reflect that the war was lost by George W. Bush alone.

Well I am certainnly not one to defend this President but to be fair the whole idea of taking Saddam out in the first place was flawed. He did not have any WMD's, he had nothing to do with 9-11, he had no collusion with Al-Qaeda, and he presented no danger to our country.

So these men who want to shirk off the blame and lay it solely on the shoulders of George Bush are simply cowards unwilling to accept that they helped this country make a terrible mistake which will endanger our children for decades to come.