By JEFFREY SIMPSON

Tuesday, May 1, 2007 – Page A19, The Globe and Mail

The war keeps claiming hundreds of victims in Iraq every month, but the war claims victims, too, among the U.S. ideologues who launched and supported it.

Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned after November’s mid-term elections, a sacrificial lamb to voters’ anger over the misbegotten war.

Douglas Feith, his undersecretary of policy, also left and is reportedly unable to find a job.

Lewis (Scooter) Libby, former chief-of-staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, has been found guilty on four counts of perjury and obstructing justice in a case involving the Bush administration’s justification for invading Iraq.

John Bolton, another, resigned as ambassador to the United Nations when the Democratic-controlled Senate refused to confirm him.

President George Bush, of course, is setting record lows in public esteem. His presidency is effectively over in terms of getting anything done domestically. He will likely be viewed as the most disastrous president in a century. The leading reason will be the Iraq war.

Mr. Cheney is even less popular than the President. He is so unpopular that he was unable to speak recently at the conservative, Mormon university Brigham Young.

With the redoubtable exception of Fox News and a dwindling group of neocon writers who tub-thumped for war (Charles Krauthammer, David Frum, William Kristol), almost no media voice can find anything good to say about the administration. Most who were beguiled into supporting the invasion have recanted.

The latest U.S. victim was fighting for his job as President of the World Bank yesterday.

Paul Wolfowitz, an ardent proponent of invading Iraq as deputy to Mr. Rumsfeld, defended his conduct to a special panel of board members investigating how his girlfriend, a World Bank employee, got a high-paying State Department job. Her salary there eclipsed that of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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