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| Ass Boil |
From the category of tragically funny, the PNAC crew is thinking about closing it's doors because their mission is apparently "accomplished".
I guess I would have to agree with them if they changed their mission to further destabilizing the middle east with an unnecessary invasion and occupation based on lies and replacing a toothless secular dictator with an Iranian style Islamic theocracy...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...6061100739.html
Mission Accomplished?
The doors may be closing shortly on the nine-year-old Project for a New American Century, the neoconservative think tank headed by William Kristol , former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle and now editor of the Weekly Standard, which is must reading for neocon cogitators and agitators.
The PNAC was short on staff -- having perhaps a half-dozen employees -- but very long on heavy hitters. The founders included Richard B. Cheney , Donald H. Rumsfeld , Paul D. Wolfowitz , Jeb Bush , I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , William J. Bennett, Zalmay Khalilzad and Quayle.
The goal was to continue the Reaganite, muscular approach to projecting American power and "moral clarity" in a post-Cold War world, the group's manifesto said. The targets were liberal drift and conservative isolationism.
PNAC and its supporters dominated the Bush administration's foreign policy apparatus and championed a policy to get rid of Saddam Hussein long before Sept. 11, 2001.
In its famous 1998 letter to President Bill Clinton , PNAC said "removing Saddam Hussein and his regime . . . now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy." Clinton was urged to use all diplomatic, political and military means to topple him.
Despite the happy chatter before the Iraq invasion about cheering crowds and bouquets and cakewalks and how the war was going to pay for itself, the signatories wrote that "we are fully aware of the dangers of implementing this policy."
There had been debate about PNAC's future, but the feeling, a source said, was of "goal accomplished" and it looks to be heading toward closing. Former executive director Gary J. Schmitt , who had been executive director of President Ronald Reagan 's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, left recently for a post at the American Enterprise Institute. (Not a big move. Actually, only five floors up from PNAC.) Still, seems like a short century. |
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| WTFyall |
It's gotta be a trick... they want us to think we can go home... "NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS... GO BACK TO SLEEP!"
F'ing wackos! We're at war alright, but it ain't with the aphganis or iraqis... it's with the AMERICAN Taliban. |
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| Ass Boil |
Exactly. They want us to believe there are no similar plans going on right now...
I find it so insulting that this group of assholes put all of these plans on paper, then used the fear from 9/11 to accomplish all of their ridiculous goals, and no one seems to give a shit. |
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| NC-Stern-Mark |
Quote: Originally posted by Ass Boil
Exactly. They want us to believe there are no similar plans going on right now...
I find it so insulting that this group of assholes put all of these plans on paper, then used the fear from 9/11 to accomplish all of their ridiculous goals, and no one seems to give a shit. |
I understand. I know that's why you spend a lot of energy on asspirate. Conventional wisdom says; OK, we're in Iraq, now how do we get out and not make a total mess and you want the people who got us in Iraq held accountable...
It's a noble undertaking and I hope it comes to pass.
Going into Iraq was the first mistake. I argued there was intelligence that Iraq had WMD but the fact remains, there had to be intelligence that foretold of the problems we would face. The inevitable insurgency and civil strife in Iraq was ignored and pushed to the side in the rush to invade. Many soldiers died because of this and someone needs to pay for it. |
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| Stickman |
Quote: Originally posted by Ass Boil
I find it so insulting that this group of assholes put all of these plans on paper, then used the fear from 9/11 to accomplish all of their ridiculous goals, and no one seems to give a shit. |
Do you think that's a coincidence? |
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| Ass Boil |
Quote: Originally posted by NC-Stern-Mark
I understand. I know that's why you spend a lot of energy on asspirate. Conventional wisdom says; OK, we're in Iraq, now how do we get out and not make a total mess and you want the people who got us in Iraq held accountable...
It's a noble undertaking and I hope it comes to pass.
Going into Iraq was the first mistake. I argued there was intelligence that Iraq had WMD but the fact remains, there had to be intelligence that foretold of the problems we would face. The inevitable insurgency and civil strife in Iraq was ignored and pushed to the side in the rush to invade. Many soldiers died because of this and someone needs to pay for it. |
I agree with everything you said. We may disagree on the pre-war period, but getting out of the current situation is the most important issue right now.
Not one more soldier needs to die in that occupation... |
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| Ironpirate |
| Bunch of fucking cry babies. |
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| Ass Boil |
Quote: Originally posted by Ironpirate
Bunch of fucking cry babies. |
But weren't the PNAC idiots "crying" about Saddam even though he posed no threat to the US? And now look what we have.
I'm sure you were upset about that crying, also, right?
You should try thinking before you type... |
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| muntz |
Quote: Originally posted by NC-Stern-Mark
I understand. I know that's why you spend a lot of energy on asspirate. Conventional wisdom says; OK, we're in Iraq, now how do we get out and not make a total mess and you want the people who got us in Iraq held accountable...
It's a noble undertaking and I hope it comes to pass.
Going into Iraq was the first mistake. I argued there was intelligence that Iraq had WMD but the fact remains, there had to be intelligence that foretold of the problems we would face. The inevitable insurgency and civil strife in Iraq was ignored and pushed to the side in the rush to invade. Many soldiers died because of this and someone needs to pay for it. |
thanks for understanding his point.... the problem is there is no exit strategy or even the beginnings of one... what if something else happens were not prepared even for home thats the whole point... |
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| NC-Stern-Mark |
Quote: Originally posted by muntz
thanks for understanding his point.... the problem is there is no exit strategy or even the beginnings of one... what if something else happens were not prepared even for home thats the whole point... |
I understand as well.
The point I was trying to make is Ass Boil has an excellent point about holding to account those who may have twisted intelligence to get us into the war.
It will be done in the next Democratic administration. |
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