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Thread ID: 6454 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-05-02
2003-05-02 21:14 | User Profile
[url=http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j043003.html]http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j043003.html[/url] April 30, 2003
NEOCONS IN DENIAL It's a 'conspiracy theory' to blame neocons for the war ââ¬â even though they spent the last decade agitating for it
One of the major accomplishments of this site, aside from keeping our readers up-to-the-minute on what's really happening in Iraq, has been to educate the public about who brought us this war, and why.
We have held, from the beginning, that war on Iraq did not and does not serve American interests, and we have traced its origins back to a group of determined ideologues who see it as the first phase of a campaign to take America on the road to Empire. Ideas, not guns, rule the world, and the ideology espoused by the neoconservatives has been consistent, and relentlessly advanced since the first days of the post-cold war era. It boils down to this: war, war, and yet more war. Their goal ââ¬â "benevolent global hegemony" exercised by the U.S.
These ex-leftists and former Scoop Jackson Democrats were agitating for war against Iraq ââ¬â and most of the rest of the Middle East ââ¬â well before 9/11. The debris from that horrific disaster hadn't even stopped smoldering ......................
2003-05-02 23:32 | User Profile
...would represent something to my knowledge unique in history. It is common for great powers to try to fight wars by proxy, getting smaller powers to fight for their interests. This would be the first instance I know where a great power (in fact, a superpower) would do the fighting as the proxy of a small client state."
Remake of Steinbeckââ¬â¢s Of Mice and Men. Big dumb US playing Lenny to Israelââ¬â¢s cunning little George. First in what is designed to be an everlasting series. Produced by US taxpayers. Directed by Ariel Sharon. Roll ââ¬Ëem.