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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: craig crawford who wrote (286182)	8/13/2002 9:12:14 AM
From: E. T.	Respond to of 769670

Too bad your hate blinds you to what the truth is. Quote TJ all you want, he wasn't boosting antisemtism as you do.

To: craig crawford who wrote (286182)	8/13/2002 11:17:43 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Beware the Neocons frontpagemag.com By David Harsanyi FrontPageMagazine.com \| August 13, 2002 As war with Iraq becomes an inescapable reality, a "peace-loving" contingent of pundits have momentarily transferred their assault from the phantom Religious Right to a new, more sinister group, calling themselves neoconservatives. Forget 50 years of neoconservative political, social and economic thought; forget Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz and Nathan Glazer; forget Ronald Reagan whose neocon-influenced foreign policy won the Cold War. From now on, just think of them as warmongers. Stereotyping can be a complicated business, but anti-war pundits have mastered its intricacies, distilling intellectual movements into trouble-free critique: neoconservatives are duplicitous right wingers, prodding the United States towards war to a.) advance our colonial gains b.) facilitate the racist Israeli government’s subjugation of defenseless Arabs and c.) wag the dog for oil fetishists George Bush and Richard Cheney. Joseph Sobran has described neocons as "former liberals, mostly pro-Israel and anti-Communist Jewish intellectuals." Irving Kristol, the "godfather" of neoconservatism, more appropriately described one as "a liberal who has been mugged by reality." But these days, it seems that even temperate support for military action against dictators and terrorists qualifies you a neocon. Chris Matthews, of MSNBC’s "Hardball", a former White House aide and speechwriter for the foreign policy-challenged President Jimmy Carter, spearheaded the recent attack from his San Francisco Chronicle column, writing that a "regime change" in Iraq was "demanded by neoconservative policy wonks and backed by oil-patchers George W. Bush and Dick Cheney." "What I fear is the neoconservatives," Matthews told an audience at Brown University. "They want to fight the North Koreans again. Iran. Iraq. Syria. Libya." Before long, "they’ll go after China." Matthews, who forgot to mention Saudi Arabia, Sudan and France, exposes what sounds like a Jewish conspiracy, facilitated by Republican oilmen. The TV host conveniently failed to mention that every poll shows that a majority of Americans support military action against Iraq. Matthews, by the way, is not shy about outing the main culprits: Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Robert Kagan (Washington Post), "neo-conservative" Frank Gaffney Jr., William Safire (New York Times), David Frum, (a "neo-conservative Canadian"), Joseph Shattan ("a like-minded ideologue"), Paul Wolfowitz ("leads the neo-conservative forces at the Pentagon") and Richard Perle ("neo-conservative high priest") are the main culprits in the scheme ............................................................................................................................. The neocon-obsessed Marshall refers to Perle as the "the portly, Ronald Reagan-era assistant secretary of defense who kept the defense-hawk home fires burning throughout the Bill Clinton years from a perch at the American Enterprise Institute." Clinton might have taken some of his advice, perhaps none of this bellicosity would be necessary. Nevertheless, the slim Marshall points out, in case you missed it or cared, that Perle is "Jewish, passionately pro-Israel and pro-Likud." The importance of those traits can be easily deduced.