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Non-Tech : The ENRON Scandal

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To: Mephisto who wrote (4951)9/13/2003 10:58:17 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 5185
 
Neocons on the Defensive:

truthout.org

Architects of Iraq War Put on the Defensive
By Howard LaFranchi and Gail Russell Chaddock
Christian Science Monitor

Friday 12 September 2003

Policy shifts and congressional hearings signal a new climate for neoconservatives.

WASHINGTON - The neoconservative policymakers who helped spur George W. Bush toward war in
Iraq may not be on the way out, but their influence is undergoing its greatest test since Sept. 11.

This week, Congress has grilled key promoters of the idea of transforming the Middle East, and
spreading American values, through regime change in Iraq. Gone is the self-assuredness - some say
arrogance - that typified Bush administration testimony through the end of "major hostilities." Gone,
too, are claims that Americans would be greeted as liberators and then soon leave, or that Iraqi oil
would quickly defray reconstruction costs.

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