Another Neo-Con Warmonger Quits the Bush Administration

May 5 (EIRNS)--Jack Dyer Crouch II, deputy national security advisor, and and a key figure in developing the current troop "surge" into Iraq, announced on Friday that he will be resigning from his post early next month. Crouch has long been associated with the Cheneyac hardliners that set the Bush Administration on the course to war when they came into office in 2001. He joins Meghan O'Sullivan, deputy national security advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, who also plans to leave soon. Crouch said that he is leaving to spend more time with his family, but anonymous sources told the Washington Post that he is disenchanted with the change in direction towards both Iran and North Korea. The Post even drags out neo-con ex-US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton to praise Crouch. "It's a sad day because he had a very clear-eyed view of Iran and North Korea," Bolton said.

Crouch's view is so "clear-eyed" that in 1995 he demanded that the Clinton Administration bomb North Korea if they did not give up nuclear weapons. As a Pentagon official in 2002, Crouch oversaw the production of the Nuclear Posture Review, which helped make nuclear preventive war part of the Bush Administration's national security strategy later that year.