Neoconservatives: Impeachment Campaigner Boyle Bashing the NeoCons

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday August 03, @03:05PM

Counterpunch - August 2, 2003

"My Alma Mater is a Moral Cesspool"

By FRANCIS A. BOYLE

Professor of Law, University of Illinois School of Law

It is now a matter of public record that immediately after the terrible tragedy of September 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld and his pro-Israeli "Neoconservative" Deputy Paul Wolfowitz began to plot, plan, scheme and conspire to wage a war of aggression against Iraq by manipulating the tragic events of September 11th in order to provide a pretext for doing so. Of course Iraq had nothing at all to do with September 11th or supporting Al-Qaeda . But that made no difference to Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and the numerous other pro-Israeli Neo-cons in the Bush Jr. administration.

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Neoconservatives: Douglas Feith- Top 3 Plotter behind 911 + Iraq?

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday July 27, @11:23AM

New Questions About Feith
May 13, 2001 (<--)
Washington Watch , James Zogby (AAI)
http://www.aaiusa.org/wwatch/051301.htm

Just one month ago, I wrote about President Bush's nomination of Douglas Feith to the position of Undersecretary of Policy at the Department of Defense (DOD/Pentagon). Because this is one of the top four posts at the Pentagon in charge of "all matters concerning the formulation of national security and defense policy" and because Feith is an extreme hard-line pro-Likud hawk-I called it a "Dangerous Appointment."

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Neoconservatives: How the Neo-Cons Operate

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday July 27, @12:48AM

How the Neo-Cons Operate

by James Zogby MediaMonitors -July 01, 2003

A number of articles have appeared in recent weeks shedding new light on the thinking of the neo-conservatives who have, until now, appeared to have the upper hand in shaping the foreign policy of the Bush Administration.

It is only in the past few years that attention has been paid to this small but important group of ideologues. But now, several publications have featured stories and analyses of the group, their intellectual roots and their modus operandi. It may well be that the neo-conservatives singular success-the march to war with Iraq-is what finally brought them out of the shadows into the public eye.

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Perle: Finding Iraqi WMD may take 200 years

posted by ewing2001 on Friday July 25, @09:50AM

Perle: Finding Iraqi WMD may take 200 years

MiddleEast Online -2003-07-22

"There were of course many reasons for starting the war in Iraq," Perle told reporters when asked about US and British troops' failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq more than three months after the campaign began.

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Neoconservatives: PNAC website pulled from Web?

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday July 13, @06:58PM

The PNAC-website is still down after 48 hours.

Copies of older caches are located at Web.Archive.org and PNACrevealed.com

All infos about PNAC here

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Neoconservatives: Neo-Conned (Ron Paul on NeoCons)

posted by ewing2001 on Friday July 11, @05:54AM

Neo-Conned

thelibertycommittee.org

The modern-day, limited-government movement has been co-opted. The conservatives have failed in their effort to shrink the size of government. There has not been, nor will there soon be, a conservative revolution in Washington. Political party control of the federal government has changed, but the inexorable growth in the size and scope of government has continued unabated. The liberal arguments for limited government in personal affairs and foreign military adventurism were never seriously considered as part of this revolution.

Since the change of the political party in charge has not made a difference, who ís really in charge?

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Neoconservatives: Gary Hart (CFR) on Bush

posted by ewing2001 on Monday June 02, @08:43PM

Boston Globe

Where is Bush leading us?

By Gary Hart, 6/2/2003

"...SOMETIME LAST FALL, between the successful overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the notion of ''regime change'' in Iraq, the war on terrorism as it threatened America became a war on all terrorism everywhere. And ''terrorism'' came to include all evil and governments we didn't like. It would be interesting to know how this happened. Even more, it is important to know how this happened, because when the Bush administration decided to go after terrorism everywhere it fundamentally defined a new role for America in the world.

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Neoconservatives: Philosopher Kings- Leo Strauss and the Neocons

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday May 27, @11:39AM

Philosopher Kings
Leo Strauss and the Neocons

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Neoconservatives: Neo-Conservatism Explained

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday May 27, @11:36AM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/neo-con-explained.html

Neo-Conservatism Explained

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

"...Commentators across the spectrum have finally clued in to neo-conservatism as the intellectual framework of the Bush administration. We are suddenly faced with long think pieces on the role of political philosopher Leo Strauss in influencing the architects of the Iraq war and Bush's governance in general. We are also learning about the ideological path taken by former college Trotskyites into the Republican Party of the 1970s. It’s an instructive example of tenacity and dedication in translating ideas into practice.

Along with the political victory of the neocons (by victory I mean the reality that they now control many levers of power) has come shock and alarm of those who disagree with their policies. Their critics left and right regard their use of domestic police powers as contrary to constitutional guarantees, and their foreign policy as nothing but untrammeled aggression that violates human rights and makes us ever more vulnerable.

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Neoconservatives: The ThinkTank Foundations

posted by ewing2001 on Monday May 19, @04:20AM

The Foundations- Pt.1 Scaife Foundation

Scaife.com

Scaife Foundations

Financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time its largest single holding was stock in the Gulf Oil Corporation. Became active in funding conservative causes in 1973, when Richard Mellon Scaife became chairman of the foundation.

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NeoCons: New Nazi-Lite Con Men (Wayne Madsen)

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday May 18, @08:26AM

Hitler:The Rise of Evil (today on CBS)

New Nazi-Lite Con Men
Take Washington
By Wayne Madsen
5-17-3

"...America's manipulative neo-conservatives, who support unending aggression against any country that does not succumb to United States political, economic, and military control and who, themselves, seized power in Washington through electoral malfeasance, are taking a page from Nazi Germany's leaders in their quest for world domination.

It is no coincidence that the neo-cons are worried about comparisons between their policies and those of Hitler.

Ed Gernon, the Canadian executive producer of the upcoming CBS miniseries, "Hitler: The Rise of Evil," was fired when he suggested similarities between the methods used by both Hitler and Bush to wipe away civil liberties by playing on popular fear.

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Neoconservatives: Bush ally set to profit from the war on terror

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday May 11, @08:34AM

The Bush ally set to profit from the war on terror (Observer UK)

May 11, 2003

James Woolsey, former CIA boss and influential adviser to President George Bush, is a director of a US firm aiming to make millions of dollars from the 'war on terror', The Observer can reveal.

Woolsey, one of the most high-profile hawks in the war against Iraq and a key member of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board, is a director of the Washington-based private equity firm Paladin Capital. The company was set up three months after the terrorist attacks on New York and sees the events and aftermath of September 11 as a business opportunity which 'offer[s] substantial promise for homeland security investment'.

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Neoconservatives: Scott Ritter calls for US-Regime Change

posted by ewing2001 on Wednesday May 07, @07:01PM

Ritter Blasts Bush's War

by Jan Barry (Vietnam veteran, a journalist living in New Jersey)

Scott Ritter may be the Bush reelection team’s worse nightmare.

The former UN chief weapons inspector in Iraq and card-carrying Republican is barnstorming America with a blunt message: George W. Bush’s war on Iraq was waged on a “bodyguard of lies.”

“We need regime change, and we need it quick,” Ritter told a gathering of peace activists in New Jersey on Sunday. “George W. Bush does not have the right…to represent the American people, if he told a lie. And he told a whopper.”

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Neoconservatives: So what was the war in Iraq about, then? (James Atlas, NY Times)

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday May 06, @08:52AM

So what was the war about? (The NeoCons-Leo Strauss connection)

New York Times

May 4, 2003

A Classicist's Legacy: New Empire Builders

By JAMES ATLAS

All right, so weapons of mass destruction haven't yet been found in Iraq. And no firm link has been established between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. So what was the war in Iraq about, then? According to one school of thought, our most recent military adventure turns out to have been nothing less than a defense of Western civilization — as interpreted by the late classicist and political philosopher Leo Strauss.

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Neoconservatives: Seymour Hersh questions Cabal inside Pentagon/CIA

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday May 06, @02:47AM

New Yorker's Seymour Hersh on Cabal inside Pentagon/CIA

Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact

"...They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal—a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now based in the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans. In the past year, according to former and present Bush Administration officials, their operation, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, has brought about a crucial change of direction in the American intelligence community. These advisers and analysts, who began their work in the days after September 11, 2001, have produced a skein of intelligence reviews that have helped to shape public opinion and American policy toward Iraq. They relied on data gathered by other intelligence agencies and also on information provided by the Iraqi National Congress, or I.N.C., the exile group headed by Ahmad Chalabi.

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