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Topic: Requiem for a neocon dream
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Jingles
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posted 23 December 2006 06:52 PM
The "Project for the New American Century" has been reduced to a voice-mail box and a ghostly website. A single employee has been left to wrap things up. quote: Among the signatories were many of the senior officials who would later determine policy under President George W Bush - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams and Lewis Libby - as well as thinkers including Francis Fukuyama, Norman Podheretz and Frank Gaffney.
quote: In an article called "Neo Culpa", Richard Perle declared that had he known how it would turn out, he would have been against it: "I think now I probably would have said: 'No, let's consider other strategies'."
Nice. If I'd known we'd lose, I'd have opposed it. The real question is why these motherfuckers aren't swollen corpses swinging from lampposts with "Traitor" signs around their necks. They should be on death row, not on speaking tours.
From: At the Delta of the Alpha and the Omega | Registered: Nov 2002
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M. Spector
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posted 26 December 2006 07:38 PM
Reports of the demise of the neo-cons are, to paraphrase Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated. Just because the Iraq war turned into a debacle it doesn't mean they are about to run and hide. quote: Former Nixon counsel John Dean recently told a San Diego audience he doesn't think Bush is in charge - Cheney is running the government. "One of Dick Cheney's geniuses is that he lets Dubya wake up every morning and think he's President," Dean noted. Cheney has set up his own National Security Council in the Vice President's office, according to Dean. Decisions about budgets, personnel, etc., never get to the Oval Office. Cheney decides the important matters before they ever reach Bush's desk, Dean said.The report of the Iraq Study Group was not prepared by a bunch of radicals. It even recommended privatizing Iraq's oil. But the group of 10 saw that more troops and shunning Iran and Syria is not the answer. What did Bush do? He dismissed the ISG report out of hand in favor of Cheney's agenda. Why would Dick Cheney and the neocons who convinced Bush to start this war decide to pull out now? They created the war to achieve their imperial dream of privatizing Iraqi oilfields and building permanent U.S. military bases nearby to protect them. They are willing to sacrifice the lives of our soldiers and the Iraqi people in pursuit of their dream. Cheney is undoubtedly telling the evangelical Dubya to hang in there, God is testing him.... And it could get worse. Cheney-Bush has sent our battleships to the Persian Gulf to "warn" Iran that we mean business. And the White House blacked out parts of a New York Times op-ed on negotiating with Iran written by two former U.S. government advisors. This means, in all likelihood, that Cheney has decided it's time to pick off the next member of the Axis of Evil. They're following the same strategy they used on the way to Iraq: convince the American people that Iran is building weapons of mass destruction, notwithstanding overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Marjorie Cohn
From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005
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