And who will stand by him the longest?
I think I understand how shrub got into power. But, I don’t have a handle on how he got in with the neocons and when.
KKKarl was the one who picked shrub as the pick of the litter. He was ideal, a brainless suit with an engaging smile ( KKKarl’s thoughts - not mine), who could be taught to read text from a teleprompter, and who had a few skeletons but they could hide that with Poppy’s connections.
KKKarl engineered shrub’s victories from the Texas Governors Mansion right through to the white house. He played shrub off as a regular guy and played on his family man image after the radicalright framed, entrapped and set up poor Big Dog.
But sure as hell KKKarl did not invent the current foreign policy and world view of shrubco. Even turdblossom has his limits.
So here is what I don’t get. When did the neocons get their grubby little bony fingers on shrub? Was it Darthcheney and if so, how did he get his foot in that door?
We know the PNAC has been after the prized Iraq war since Poppy blew it in 1991. But I have read that Poppy distrusted the neocons. Surely he would have advised junior to stay away from them.
I can see how the religious radicalright got in. That was KKKarl’s plan, to divide the country, ignore the moderates of this nation, and to go for the theocons.
Remember, “ I am a divider not a uniter”?
But who were the first neocons to get into shrubs inner circle? And how?
Did it happen before he ran for Preznit, or did they come out of the shadows after 9-11, because surely a man who sits and reads “ My pet goat” while he is being advised that the nation has been attacked, would be a man looking for leadership and ideas and council at such a time. So did the neocons enter the picture then?
Who made the chimperator? Was it KKKarl or was it the neocons all along?
Maybe they picked him and turdblossom did their bidding?
One of the reasons this is important is because we have been discussing who still supports shrub. Most agree that his voting base is the religious right which I believe was his initial base. But, if the shrub administration takes a permanent nose dive in popularity and he screws the pooche on Iraq, then the neocons will dump him. But will the theocons? After all they were first in, and maybe last out? Or is the other way around?
Anyone have any ideas?
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http://www.answers.com/topic/neoconservatism-in-the-united-statesThe comeback of neoconservatism under George W. Bush
>Such so-called neoconservatives were eager to implement a new foreign policy with the change in Administrations from Clinton to George W. Bush. Early in the Bush Administration, it was confronted with its first foreign policy crisis known as the China spy plane incident....For instance, Frank Gaffney, who served as assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, warned in an article in National Review Online that President Bush "should use this occasion to make clear to the American people that the PRC is acting in an increasingly belligerent manner. Mr. Bush needs to talk about these threats as well as his commitment to defend the American people, their forces overseas and their allies."<10> (
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/6/194726.shtml). Additionally, some neoconservatives perceived that Bush's Administration initially insufficiently supported Israel. As a result, many neoconservatives perceived Bush's foreign policies to be not substantially different from the policies of Clinton.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the The Pentagon, however, the influence of neoconservatism -- at least as it is understood to mean an aggressive stance toward foreign policy threats -- in the Bush administration appears to have found its purpose in the shift from the threat of Communism to the threat of Islamic terrorism.<
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