Neo-Conned: Sweet Revenge for Being Duped at Vanity Fair?

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Vanity Fair magazine has rushed on line an article excerpt by David Rose in which leading neoconservatives condemn Bush's handling of the war on Iraq. "Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman, David Frum, and others play the blame game with shocking frankness," reports Vanity Fair, which published the excerpt on its website before the mid-term elections, thereby angering Perle and others interviewed. Is Vanity Fair trying to atone in part for its previous and now-discredited reporting by David Rose prior to the war? In 2002 and 2003 Rose was duped by the propaganda campaign that sold the war, and he wrote articles for Vanity Fair that echoed and gave credibility to false claims from phony defectors provided by Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress. As Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber report in their book The Best War Ever, Rose has since expressed "profound regret" for his duping. On election day 2006 he appeared on Democracy Now.