"The gift that keeps on giving."
Hijacked Republicans...
This administration is perhaps the most radical administration in a century...There are three extreme factions...The second extreme faction is the neoconservative wing of the administration, the one currently responsible for implementing the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war. They believe in a role for ‘total war’ in the establishment of what amounts to a new American empire; they are overt about this and use these words themselves. They held these beliefs way before 9/11; in fact they have writings stating the need for something like 9/11 to happen so that they could implement their vision.
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The faction in the administration that authored the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war is one of the most radical--the neoconservatives. They don’t for the most part even come from very deep within the Republican tradition, being mostly ex-liberals who have converted to an idealistic vision of world domination through military force.
"No stages. This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war ...our children will sing great songs about us years from now."
Richard Perle, Council on Security Policy
"We may willy-nilly find ourselves forced … to topple five or six or seven more tyrannies in the Islamic world (including that other sponsor of terrorism, Yasir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority). I can even the turmoil of this war leading to some new species of an imperial mission for America, whose purpose would be to oversee the emergence of successor governments in the region more amenable to reform and modernization than the despotisms now in place. … I can also envisage the establishment of some kind of American protectorate over the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, as we more and more come to wonder why 7,000 princes should go on being permitted to exert so much leverage over us and everyone else."
Norman Podhoretz, ‘grandfather’ of the neoconservative movement, author of “World War IV”
This is the most often cited faction as having hijacked the Republican Party. Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, at the Defense Department, Condaleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle--all are administration officials who are neoconservatives. They do not believe in diplomacy, they do believe in war as a first option.
“The United States needs to go to war with Iraq because it needs to go to war with someone in the region and Iraq makes the most sense.”
Jonah Goldberg, neoconservative thinker
Diplomacy to solve the problems deliberately created by the Neocons, not a draft, which will play into expansion plans of Neocon imperialists [Perle, Ledeen, Podhoretz, Norquist, Wolfowitz => sophomoric Nietzschean imitators...:puke:“Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our society and abroad..." (Michael Ledeen -- possibly involved in forged Niger documents -- mouthing Nietzsche stylistically, a la Kaufmann translation, which probably sounds impressive to gullibles like Rumsfeld and Cheney. BTW, Nietzsche could not get beyond his existential abyss, which nihilism led the philosopher to postulate an overcoming of existential despair by defining his "over-man" as a VALUE-CREATOR, a philosopher-with-a-hammer,
willing values and
creating realities...from which probably derives Rovian "Creating your own reality" and the "creative destruction" notions of Michael Ledeen.)].
Which DLC dems will ignore the legality of the war (not investigate the lies or prosecute the treason of Cheney, Bush, Powell, Tenet?, etc) and come out and support a draft?
(Hillary?)