1. Richard Perle's resignation as head of the Defense Policy Board in early 2003, after it was revealed that he was lobbying for a relaxation of U.S. Defense Department regulations on behalf of a Red Chinese front company (Hutchison Wampoa) that was seeking to purchase extensive fiber-optic assets from Global Crossing.
2. Richard Perle's resignation as a member of that same body a few months later, after it became clear that almost every single prediction he had made about the war in Iraq was utterly wrong. (Definition of a "disgraceful loser": a person who has the dubious distinction of resigning twice from the same organization in a three-month period)
3. The official statement by a group called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya late this summer, in which they criticized the Putin government for its heavy-handed tactics in dealing with the Chechen uprising. A glance at the ACPC's membership list will reveal such luminaries of the neo-conservative movement as Richard Perle, William Kristol, Michael Ledeen, etc. "War on terror," my @ss, you jack@sses.
Credibility and Putin? You think so.