Calling a spade a flower

Charles Krauthammer, one of the guys who got everything wrong in regards to Iraq yet still manages to retain gainful employment as a pundit, has a piece the Washington Post today. The piece itself is nothing particulary great or bad ... a standard, mealy-mouthed response to claims George Tenet makes in his recent book. However, this part made me actually laugh out loud:

The decision to go to war was made by a war cabinet consisting of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld. No one in that room could even remotely be considered a neoconservative.

None of them are neoconservatives in the same way no sahuaro is a cactus, or no woodpecker is a bird.

Of those five individuals, Cheney and Rumsfeld unquestionably fit the profile of a neoconservative. Cases can be made for Rice and Bush. Only Powell, who left the administration in late 2004, doesn't fit the bill.

Heck, if we apply Krauthammer's standards, then Al Gore is no environmentalist, Barack Obama is no liberal, and Krauthammer himself is not an idiot.