Reply #32: It's weird huh?

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I went through a Clancy junky phase reading everything up to the point of Rainbow Six. After that it seemed his next 300 books were a little lame.

A friend actually suggested that Clancy has been hinting at "the coming horrors" of the neo-con cabal's plans, but even though I've heard he is no fan of * and that he decried the "Attack on Iraq"(tm), it seems like a long shot. But read this and tell me what you think:

He declined repeatedly to comment on the war, before saying that it lacked a "casus belli," or suitable provocation.

"It troubles me greatly to say that, because I’ve met President Bush," Clancy said. "He’s a good guy.... I think he’s well-grounded, both morally and philosophically. But good men make mistakes."

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In discussing the Iraq war, both Clancy and Zinni singled out the Department of Defense for criticism. Clancy recalled a prewar encounter in Washington during which he "almost came to blows" with Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser at the time and a longtime advocate of the invasion.

"He was saying how (Secretary of State) Colin Powell was being a wuss because he was overly concerned with the lives of the troops," Clancy said. "And I said, 'Look..., he's supposed to think that way!' And Perle didn’t agree with me on that. People like that worry me."

Both Clancy and Zinni praised President Bush but would not commit to voting for him. Clancy said that voting for Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' presumptive nominee, would be "a stretch for me," but wouldn’t say that he was supporting Bush.

Zinni, a registered Republican who voted for Bush in 2000, said he could not support the president’s re-election "if the current strategists in the defense department are going to be carried over."
From: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Y2hHtLeyb2AJ:www.tagorda.com/archives/003353.php+%22tom+clancy%22+bush&hl=en

Rainbow Six's storyline almost seems like he had the Neo-con's Boogeyman du jour nailed before they unveiled it.

You have to see "Power of Nightmares" the 3 hour BBC documentary on how the Neocons did EXACTLY the same thing in the 70s with "The Cold War"(tm) making a cia-denied "supreme threat" out of the collapsing Soviet Union.

This documentary along with the video on the Dominionists absolutely grounded me to the depth and breath of the coup. It also showed me that there _is_ a way to take them down, despite them seemingly having all the bases covered...

All the best in the new year DoYouEverWonder!
{B^)
FMH

p.s. I _do_ wonder - all the time!