Pentinence, they owe it, years of it.

The real problem with all the neo-con revision, like the Vanity Fair article that is going on at this point, is not the fact that they were wrong. We always knew that.

In fact tens of millions of people knew in 2003 before the war, the neo-cons just would not listen. The real problem is that they are trying to resurrect their reputations, for next time.

Well if they really want to resurrect their reputations, I would suggest they start with all the DEAD. Try explaining how their asking forgiveness for their mistake is justified with all those humans who no longer walk among us. Then explain to the tens of thousands who still do, but horribly wounded, maimed and disfigured will carry their scars and nightmares for the rest of their lives. How do they expect to just say they had an intellectual brainfart, and expect to WALK away from the inferno on earth they created?

It does give a small amount of satisfaction that they can admit they did not have it right, but with all the death and destruction they wrought with their arrogance and dishonesty, they need to DO much more than say they were mistaken to have trusted Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. After all their devious work behind the scene to fix the Intel and stifle the opposition enabled the very people they now decry for failing. They never saw the inept planning or delusional expectations in 2003? They never considered the Iraqi’s would not act on script, but might have other ideas once the balloon went up. They never considered what could happen if their plans went a little wrong let alone A LOT WRONG.

They need to find some way to undo the damage they have done. To this country, it's military, people and budget. Undo the damage they have wrought in the Middle East, and its people. Undo the damage so many families in Iraq, Lebanon, and the USA will carry for the rest of their lives.

The rest of humanity will move on after the war is over but to the families who lost a loved one the war is NEVER over. To most of us it will be a very bad memory of a time when a child pretending to be an adult was used by some very greedy and arrogant people to try and grab a nation for their benefit. But to those who will have to live with the loss of their loved ones it will become an empty hole which can NEVER get filled. Children with out a parent, wives and husbands left alone, parents who bury a child far too soon.

No Mr. Perle, ET Al you should not get off as easy as you try with your revisionist history in Vanity Fair, crimes of the soul DEMAND penitence, and you all have a lot of penitence to do.