Since Blogger may not always keep it alive, try the
link. or read the story below. I think it's
revealing. And I view Cons as Cons. You know what I
mean
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2004/06/continuing-triumph-of-neoconservatism.html
It has become very fashionable to believe that the
neocons are on the run, and their hold over American
politics has finally come to an end. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Although Iraq isn't going
well, and the torture issue is proving to be a bit of
an embarrassment for certain Washington elites, the
power of the neocons continues pretty much unabated.
They are keeping a low profile until it is clear that
oil prices will stay low enough for Bush to be
reelected, but their ultimate plans for the Middle
East and the world remain in place, and are quietly
advancing. Americans who think that some fairy
godmother - either the CIA, 'patriotic' U. S.
generals, or the U. S. Congress - is going to rescue
them are dreaming in technicolor. All kinds of
terrible legal things are supposed to be in the works
for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and all the
infamous neocons from Wolfowitz on down. Just who
exactly will be bringing all these people to justice?
the Republican-controlled Justice Department?;
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives?;
the Republican-controlled Senate?;
the Republican-controlled court system?;
the Republican-controlled (and completely corrupted)
Supreme Court?;
the Republican-controlled Executive Branch?;
the Republican-contolled media?; or maybe
the Christian Zionist cult hostage President?
This isn't your father's Republican Party, the one
that might have had enough integrity and respect for
the Constitution to can Nixon. These guys are loyal
to only one thing: their continued hold on power. The
only thing that will save the United States from the
neocons and the further wars and domestic terrors
that will be imposed by them is the ballot box in
November. But what's going to happen there?:
Bush's core group of knuckle-dragging knucklehead
Christian Zionist crazies remains completely intact
(these people actually like the fact that the United
States is torturing people, especially if it involves
the breach of international law);
the Democrats have a very weak candidate;
another 'terrorist' attack would turn Bush into a
hero overnight, and make Americans rally around the
President for protection;
Rove no doubt has an 'October Surprise' up his sleeve
(the capture of OBL?);
the crooked electronic voting machines are facing a
bit of a battle, but in a very close election enough
of them will be in place in November for the
executives at Diebold and other companies to switch
enough votes to make the difference;
incredibly, brother Jeb is still (!!!) jobbing the
voting lists in Florida to systematically
disenfranchise black people (is it still 1955 in
Florida?), and using crooked voting machines; and
when all else fails, Bush always has the crooked
Supreme Court in his pocket.
The United States is in extreme danger, perhaps the
greatest danger it has ever faced, and not only is it
unrealistic to count the neocons out, it is also very
dangerous. Here, from Bob Dreyfuss, are their plans
for Saudi Arabia (my emphasis):
"Before the war in Iraq, a former ambassador to Saudi
Arabia, James Akins, told me that by invading Iraq
the Bush administration would accelerate the spread
of Al Qaeda-style movements in Saudi Arabia, and it's
happening. The country is said to be in a state of
incipient civil war, and the royal family is
apparently unable to stem the spread of the bin
Ladenite poison. Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the
United States has called on the kingdom to conduct an
all-out war against the terrorists, but it could be
too little, too late. Make no mistake, however: if
Saudi Arabia falls to radicals, U.S. forces will
occupy that country's oil fields faster than you can
say 'imperialism.' And if that happens, it will be
Phase 2 of the neocons' expanded plans for the Middle
East: first topple Saddam and 'flatten Iraq,' as
another former ambassador to Saudi Arabia described
the essence of the neocon Iraq strategy, and then
move on to Saudi Arabia.
'I've stopped warning that bin Laden might take over
Saudi Arabia,' Akins told me last year. 'I think
that's exactly what they want.' And then American
forces would move in. No U.S. government could
tolerate the collapse of Saudi Arabia. Oil experts
are already pointing out that sources of oil outside
Saudi Arabia and Iraq are rapidly being drained,
meaning that those two countries are basically the
only two sources of expanded future supply. Period."
Sometime towards the end of the second Bush term I
can see the United States engaged in World War III
(known to future historians as the Greater Israel
War) in the Middle East with Iraq-style occupations
(or worse) in Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia (not to
mention Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea). While
people fantasize about various bad things that might
happen to the neocons, Israel continues to steal land
to build more illegal settlements, the
Israeli-American apartheid wall continues to go up,
Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran are under imminent
threat of attack (Dreyfuss goes on to point out in
the posting I cited above that Iraq's aggressive
nuclear posturing is based on the fact it knows it
will soon have to defend itself), and the 'strategy
of terror' continues against Americans. The neocon
plans are advancing nicely, and nothing can stop
them.
posted at 12:38 AM
Tags: Saswat, Bush, USA, Capitalism, Imperialism