Norquist: Bush’s Advisers Telling Him ‘Invade Iran. Then Everyone Will See How Smart We Are’

In this month’s issue of Vanity Fair, Craig Unger writes that the
same neoconservative advisers who advocated for the Iraq war are now
recycling the same tactics to push for the bombing of Iran. Unger
reports that not all of Bush’s key conservative allies are pleased with
the administration's course on Iran:

“Everything the advocates of war said would happen
hasn’t happened,” says the president of Americans for Tax Reform,
Grover Norquist, an influential conservative who backed the Iraq
invasion. “And all the things the critics said would happen have
happened. [The president’s neoconservative advisers] are effectively saying, ‘Invade Iran. Then everyone will see how smart we are.’ But after you’ve lost x number of times at the roulette wheel, do you double-down?”

For example, Richard Perle, a former Bush administration official, has said, “I have very little doubt” that Bush would order “necessary military action” against Iran. “Make no mistake, President Bush will need to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities before leaving office,” wrote American Enterprise Institute analyst Joshua Muravchik.

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