http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/06/1091732091290.html?oneclick=trueAugust 7, 2004
Francis Fukuyama long advocated getting rid of Saddam. But the one-time Bush fan says his man botched it, writes Peter Fray.
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Francis Fukuyama used to be part of the Washington gang that happily filled in the gaps in George Bush's intellectual world. Several of his fellow members - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz - have played defining roles in the Bush presidency and will effectively meet their political fate with him in November.
Fukuyama, however, has departed from Team Bush over Iraq. Despite his ranking as one of the world's foremost public intellectuals and a leading neoconservative thinker, he will not be voting Republican this year and he thinks his old ally, Rumsfeld, should have resigned over Iraq.
"There seems to be this cultural thing that Americans don't resign, no matter what," he says. "But I think that people who are responsible for policy that hasn't gone well owe it to give a chance to somebody else. I just think they
ought to be held accountable for policy failure."
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"The problem that has now been created is one of credibility," Fukuyama says. "He can get rid of his foreign policy team, go back to the UN and so forth, but I think there's something about his personality - who he is - that is going to make that impossible. I think under a different leadership you can do a fair amount to restore confidence."
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NOTE: Put this here because it's not about the election really, it's about how bush* and his frigging cabal has screwed up bigtime.