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To: Brumar89 who wrote (111046)	8/12/2003 1:00:31 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

The NeoCon agenda was laid out, in detail, before 9/11. On paper. It could not be implemented until after 9/11. That event created fear, and the fear was harnessed to the NeoCon agenda, to turn the position papers into "facts on the ground". And the result is the American Colony of Mesopotamia. Powell has been used, to try to sell the NeoCon agenda, in the UN and elsewhere. He's a team player, but it's clear he has argued (mostly in private) against all the basic tenets of the NeoCons, all along. He is a multilateralist, a Realist. He doesn't have their utopian visions of Middle East dominoes falling, and liberal democracy breaking out in unlikely places like Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The Powell Doctrine on the use of the U.S. army abroad, was violated in the Iraq war. The State Dept. is not in charge of our new colony. The fact that, before 9/11, Bush the Younger had no interest, and no experience, in foreign policy, and what little he said was almost isolationist, this is evidence that he has not been the decision-maker. It's not his ideas that made all this happen. His role is to wave the flag, look stern, and have photo-ops on aircraft carriers.