Just Like Old Times With The Blood Soaked Neocons
The Monster That Wouldn't Die
"As the ugly reality of what we had gotten ourselves into in Iraq settled on the national consciousness, like a viral infection settling on the lungs, the conventional wisdom was that the authors of this war – the political tendency known as the neoconservatives – were utterly and completely discredited. Where were the "weapons of mass destruction"? Where were the crowds of Iraqis throwing rose petals in our wake? Where was the cakewalk? And – most of all – where were the friggin' neocons, anyway? Most were in hiding, having resigned and slunk back to academia or some neocon "think tank"; very few were in the line of fire.
They left that one for the troops.
Suddenly, once-ubiquitous figures such as Richard Perle, James Woolsey, and Kenneth Adelman, who had made the television talking-heads circuit pretty regularly in the run-up to war, were nowhere to be seen. The neocons vanished from the corridors of power or else took cover in unlighted alcoves. Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Perle, and a large number of their retainers left government or – like Scooter Libby and Larry Franklin – were indicted."
The biggest joke in politics in the last several decades was the so called "opposition party" assuming power in congress. They immediately showed their spineless, bootlicking true colors by getting on their knees and fellating their obeisance to warmongering power, setting the stage for new depredations, misery and death as the fascists come out from under the rocks.
The War Party has stolen this country and plays us suckers like a cheap violin.
"As the ugly reality of what we had gotten ourselves into in Iraq settled on the national consciousness, like a viral infection settling on the lungs, the conventional wisdom was that the authors of this war – the political tendency known as the neoconservatives – were utterly and completely discredited. Where were the "weapons of mass destruction"? Where were the crowds of Iraqis throwing rose petals in our wake? Where was the cakewalk? And – most of all – where were the friggin' neocons, anyway? Most were in hiding, having resigned and slunk back to academia or some neocon "think tank"; very few were in the line of fire.
They left that one for the troops.
Suddenly, once-ubiquitous figures such as Richard Perle, James Woolsey, and Kenneth Adelman, who had made the television talking-heads circuit pretty regularly in the run-up to war, were nowhere to be seen. The neocons vanished from the corridors of power or else took cover in unlighted alcoves. Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Perle, and a large number of their retainers left government or – like Scooter Libby and Larry Franklin – were indicted."
The biggest joke in politics in the last several decades was the so called "opposition party" assuming power in congress. They immediately showed their spineless, bootlicking true colors by getting on their knees and fellating their obeisance to warmongering power, setting the stage for new depredations, misery and death as the fascists come out from under the rocks.
The War Party has stolen this country and plays us suckers like a cheap violin.
posted by nolocontendere at 5:50 AM
2 Comments:
The neocons represent the new imperial right-wing of the US. They didn't stay down long after the Vietnam war, they instead took out their frustrations from the loss of that war on Americans, by exaggerating propaganda for the war on drugs and putting Reagan and Bush in the WH, after which, the war on drugs enabled the present US police state and erosion of the Constitution and civil liberties.
No, the neocons are nothing new, they're a new face on an old monster that emerged during WW2, the Military Industrial Complex, and now, they own the US Congress.
Amen, nick. It's like a disease that goes into remission at times but never really goes away.
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