Neocons float

Robert Scheer's latest LA Times op-ed, "The Peter Principle and the Neocon Coup," says some interesting things about who's been flushed and who's left floating...

"Meanwhile, incompetence begat by ideological blindness has been rewarded. The neoconservatives who created the ongoing Iraq mess have more than survived the failure of their impossibly rosy scenarios for a peaceful and democratic Iraq under U.S. rule. In fact, despite calls for their resignations--from the former head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. Anthony Zinni, among others--the neocon gang is thriving. They have not been held responsible for the '16 words' about yellowcake, the rise and fall of Ahmad Chalabi, the Abu Ghraib scandal, the post-invasion looting of Iraq's munitions stores and the disastrous elimination of the Iraqi armed forces.

"As of today, the neocons on Zinni's list of losers--Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz; the vice president's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby; National Security Council staffer Elliott Abrams; Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld--are all still employed even as Bush's new director of central intelligence, Porter J. Goss, is eviscerating the CIA's leadership.

"This is the culmination of a three-year campaign by the president's men to scapegoat the CIA for the fact that 9/11 occurred on Bush's watch."

Could the neocons be nearing critical mass for implosion?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111704W.shtml