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To: epicure who wrote (579)	8/6/2006 3:18:15 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1695

A young person preparing to vote this fall recently asked me "What is a neocon, anyway?" My reply was this "If the person claims to embrace conservative values such as balancing the budget,and minimum interferance in citizen's lives , but seems to not only embrace war, but prefers it as an instrument of US foreign policy, that would be a neocon. These people think it is ok to run up a huge national debt in the name of "national defense" even though the US defense budget is larger than the defense budgets of all other nations in the world combined. When Eisenhower warned us about the American "Military-Industrial complex" he was warning us about the neocon agenda. It has come into full blossom. Reagan was not a neocon, but his foreign policy mainstays were. They will not happily give up power. Let us hope if the voters speak clearly and remove them from office, they will abide by the constitution and comply. Their predecessors, after all, plotted to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt in a military coup, before they were forced to scuttle the plan by honest generals who believed in the constitution and the American way.