Taking Down the Neocons - AntiWar.com (Justin Raimondo)

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Taking Down the Neocons
Federal probes will be their downfall

by Justin Raimondo

The War Party is facing disaster on a number of fronts, both foreign and domestic: in Iraq, the stubborn defiance of the insurgency and squabbling political factions underscores the failure of the occupation and its unraveling into an all-out civil war. Under the guise of "federalism," the split-up of Iraq into three separate states – the Shi'ite south, the Kurdish enclave, and the no-man's-land of the Sunni Triangle – proceeds apace. Iranian influence is growing, and the government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari is already calling for an American withdrawal, albeit not a precipitous one.

In Europe, the price of our Iraqi "victory" is being extracted from the English, as evidenced by the London terror bombings, and even former Prime Minister John Major concedes that this is blowback from the Iraq invasion.

It is in the United States, however, that the neoconservatives – the vanguard of the War Party – have suffered the biggest reverses and are in the greatest danger. It is one thing to have your policies discredited – and quite another to wind up behind bars because of them. The outcome of multiple investigations into their activities on the home front in the run-up to war may very well result in the latter....

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This administration is facing a crisis of confidence, as far as the public is concerned, and that is in large part due to growing alarm at the gathering clouds of scandal currently hanging over Washington. A surprising proportion of the American people are paying attention to Plame-gate, and it has gone from being a story mainly of interest to Washington insiders and bloggers to a major and growing embarrassment – and all because of rising public awareness.

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[Demeter]

1. We'll Have To Build More Jails

if we ever get serious about locking up the GOP thugs. Since they don't kill each other off, like the other Mafia, and believe in reproducing in all ways possible, that's a hefty number of convicts. Still, cutting off their funds would probably be the fastest way to bring the whole seige machine to a grinding halt.

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2. Good post

As usual by Raimondo. I don't understand why his articles don't get a very big response here.

Make sure you donate to their quarterly fundraiser!

[not systems]

4. Raimondo.

I like Raimondo's writing.

The reasons he doesn't get much response here is he is
a Libertarian and a conservative. Many people also get
very bent by his writings about Israel and the neocons.

I like antiwar.com but many or most people here think
the bombing of Serbia was just great even if they oppose
the war in Iraq on the grounds of the UN charters prohibition
against unsanctioned war.

I think antiwar.com is great source of real information
about a huge range of global conflicts and even if I don't
believe in their economic ideology they still are better
allies against war that the DLC dems ever will be.

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6. He was right

about Serbia too. There was no reason to attack it. I hate this type of "Our Guy" jingoism.

[not systems]

7. Agreed.

Pumping up the KLA didn't seem to be that great
of an idea either.

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3. Oops

my post below was meant for the Babylon 5 fan.

[bpilgrim]

5. chaos & the splitting up of Iraq is a neoCON goal

everything seems to be going according to plan thus far, tragically.

peace