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merbex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 07:07 AM
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Boston Globe in article says "Indictments put focus on neo conservatives"
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/10/29/indictments_put_focus_on_neoconservatives/

As the point man in the seat of power for the so-called neoconservatives, Libby was perfectly suited to carry their message: In 1992, as a senior Pentagon official, he coauthored a secret military blueprint asserting that the United States must ''act independently when collective action cannot be orchestrated" to protect its interests by force. The draft document was never approved, but had a key word -- ''preempt" -- that became synonymous with a more aggressive, unilateral US foreign policy.

A decade later, as chief of staff and Vice President Dick Cheney's national security adviser, Libby persuaded President Bush and Cheney, his boss, to adopt a strategy of preemptive war in Iraq, arguing inside the White House on behalf of like-minded allies such as former deputy secretary of defense Paul D. Wolfowitz, former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith, and former undersecretary of state John Bolton. Feith has left government service, Wolfowitz is now head of the World Bank, and Bolton is the US ambassador to the United Nations.

Do you have confidence that the public are ready and will deal with the information contained at PNAC??

Will the press FINALLY report it thoroughly?
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 07:38 AM
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1. no but there is gaping whole in the dike and I have hope as the dike is
WEAK.



....Do you have confidence that the public are ready and will deal with the information contained at PNAC??

Will the press FINALLY report it thoroughly?
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 07:39 AM
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2. nominated. passit on.
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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 07:45 AM
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3. Just Like The Weakened Levee In NO Flooded The City......
so shall this weakened dike flood the WH.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-30-05 09:58 AM
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4. IOW, this indictment couldn't have happened to a nicer guy..
one down.
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