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To: KLP who wrote (82889)3/17/2003 3:37:18 AM
From: stockman_scott  Respond to of 281500
 
<<...Could you define please the term NeoCON warHawks...>>

I came across a good article that summarizes the Neoconservative movement...

"NEOCONSERVATIVES" - WHAT AND WHO THEY ARE

iconservative.com

IMO, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle and Wolfowitz are classic NeoCONservatives...I'm not the only one who believes this...I may have added warhwawk for emphasis but here's how that article above describes the NeoCONS...

<<...Neoconservatives are pro-bombing, pro-empire heavyweight intellectuals (very rarely a business or military background) who have filled the vacuum on the Right, where most Americans have little interest in foreign policy. They dominate Republican foreign policy because they care about it, whereas most Americans don't. NATO expansion was an example; most Americans don't think about it and don't care. "Neocons" do...>>

<<...They are almost all Washington "policy wonks" who also rarely worked at all in private, much less international, business. They provide the brains, while the Military/Industrial/Congressional complex, provides the brawn of the WAR PARTY, meaning those who want, or thrive during, wars or preparation for war...>>