Kurt Nimmo: Grand Daddy Neocon Shoots Messenger

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Norman Podhoretz, the grand daddy of the Straussian neocons, expends a few thousand words in an attempt to convince us George Bush didn’t lie when he told us Saddam had a WMD program and was in cahoots with Osama bin Laden.

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Indeed, Clinton and the Democrats are to blame, as there is little difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to invading countries and slaughtering thousands of innocent people (in fact, it can be argued Clinton has a more gruesome record than Bush—he oversaw the sanctions on Iraq for eight years, brutal and inhumane sanctions responsible for killing around 1.5 million Iraqis, 500,000 of them innocent children). However, Podhoretz’s insistence the Clinton administration is responsible for Bush’s decision (actually the decision of the neocons) to invade Iraq is ludicrous, to say the least. As we know, the neocons (via PNAC) sent a letter to Clinton urging him to invade, but Clinton ignored the letter, likely understanding it came from the “crazies” previously chalked off as the sort of people who should be avoided. Moreover, the neocons and Republicans have made a cottage industry out of bashing and blaming Clinton, so we may consider Podhoretz’s assertion more of the same.

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Sounds like a plan to me—so long as the sweep does not stop with the Democrats and continues into the White House, the Pentagon, and beyond Capitol Hill to the neocon foundations, the criminal organizations (RICO should be used against them), including Podhoretz’ Hudson Institute, ultimately responsible for planning and launching the criminal invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq.


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