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Francis Fukuyama used to be part of the Washington gang that happily filled in the gaps in George Bush's intellectual world. Several of his fellow members - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz - have played defining roles in the Bush presidency and will effectively meet their political fate with him in November.

Fukuyama, however, has departed from Team Bush over Iraq. Despite his ranking as one of the world's foremost public intellectuals and a leading neoconservative thinker, he will not be voting Republican this year and he thinks his old ally, Rumsfeld, should have resigned over Iraq.

"There seems to be this cultural thing that Americans don't resign, no matter what," he says. "But I think that people who are responsible for policy that hasn't gone well owe it to give a chance to somebody else. I just think they [the Bush Administration] ought to be held accountable for policy failure."

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