now that the America-Second neocons have managed to kill 4000 US GIs.

How Neoconservatives Conquered Washington – and Launched a War, by Michael Lind

These are worthy & contemplative highlights from Georges article/link.

On the outside are James Woolsey, the former CIA director, who has tried .repeatedly to link both 9/11 and the anthrax letters in the U.S. to Saddam Hussein

Most of these "experts" never served in the military. But their headquarters is now the civilian defense secretary's office, where these Republican political appointees are despised and distrusted by the largely Republican career soldiers.

Most neoconservative defense intellectuals have their roots on the left, not the right.

Their admiration for the Israeli Likud party's tactics, including preventive warfare such as Israel's 1981 raid on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, is mixed with odd bursts of ideological enthusiasm for "democracy." They call their revolutionary ideology "Wilsonianism" (after President Woodrow Wilson), but it is really Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution mingled with the far-right Likud strain of Zionism. Genuine American Wilsonians believe in self-determination for people such as the Palestinians.

Cheney was put in charge of the presidential transition (the period between the election in November and the accession to office in January). Cheney used this opportunity to stack the administration with his hard-line allies.

The neocons took advantage of Bush's ignorance and inexperience.

Fervent Christian Zionism, along with an admiration for macho Israeli soldiers that sometimes coexists with hostility to liberal Jewish-American intellectuals, is a feature of the Southern culture.

The younger Bush was tilting away from Powell and toward Wolfowitz ("Wolfie," as he calls him) even before 9/11 gave him something he had lacked: a mission in life other than following in his dad's footsteps.

There are signs of estrangement between the cautious father and the crusading son: Last year, veterans of the first Bush administration, including Baker, Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger, warned publicly against an invasion of Iraq without authorization from Congress and the U.N.

Claims that the purpose is not to protect the American people but to make the Middle East safe for Israel are dismissed by the neocons as vicious anti-Semitism.

Yes, it really is that weird.

Another more nonlinear level of thought...going forward for US in this age range...

We are the transition. & we understand.
Obama's Generation X Factor, The Nation: Democrat Is No Boomer, But Will Thirtysomethings Back Him? - CBS News

Fuck Bucheney.

But in reality Fuck Cheney...he is still THE Fucking evil Dick.

Where's the conspiracy DUCK when you need him?
....sorry was side tracked.

HEY Dumbmutha' have you grasped the Technicolor reality?...dur
I as a non betting man who loves a CLEAR & decisive win bets not.

Dat's why 'yus' be a dumb mutha' fucker.

George...you got it...keep going.

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The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.
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