Bush Administration policy matches PNAC

[JackSwift]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3248119.stm

Bush is signing us up for perpetual war in the Middle East.

[Melinda]

1. yes, 'zactly

That's precisely what today's "speech" was about... PNAC's agenda goes mainstream.... course, I haven't read your link... just sharing my thoughts, heh. Off to read. :hi:

*On edit - another thought... I posted this earlier in LBN (and the thread promptly died); it's appropriate here too - TOTAL WAR:

The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals was outlined in prophetic detail in a document written more than two years ago and disclosed only recently. What was needed for America to dominate much of humanity and the world's resources, it said, was "some catastrophic and catalysing event - like a new Pearl Harbor". The attacks of 11 September 2001 provided the "new Pearl Harbor", described as "the opportunity of ages". The extremists who have since exploited 11 September come from the era of Ronald Reagan, when far-right groups and "think-tanks" were established to avenge the American "defeat" in Vietnam. In the 1990s, there was an added agenda: to justify the denial of a "peace dividend" following the cold war. The Project for the New American Century was formed, along with the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute and others that have since merged the ambitions of the Reagan administration with those of the current Bush regime.



One of George W Bush's "thinkers" is Richard Perle. I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about "total war", I mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term again in describing America's "war on terror". "No stages," he said. "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."

http://pilger.carlton.com/print/124759

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Judge, Jury and Executioner:

"Turning to Iran, he warned that 'the regime in Tehran must heed the democratic demands of the Iranian people, or lose its last claim to legitimacy.'"

I know you know this, but I have to say it:

YOU POOR PEOPLE ARE RULED BY FUCKING MADMEN!!!

:grr: + :scared: = :beer:

[frank frankly]

3. thank you, minstrel boy, for making it even clearer

some of us are fighting for democracy

but so many are brainwashed. literally.

and we are being ruled by an unelected fucking madman

[mmonk]

4. Yes we know it is a match

And finishing up reading Wes Clark's latest book, "Winning Modern Wars", it really lays out how bad a policy and strategy it is. I wish I could get every American that supports Bush to read it and then say they support it (they couldn't). It really does bother me.