Pentagon Neocons Outline 25 Goals to Achieve Before Bush Administration Meltdown

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Pentagon sets goals to hit before end of Bush term

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has set 25 goals to meet by the end of the Bush administration, including implementation of a long-term plan for detaining terrorism suspects, according to a memo obtained by Reuters.

The memo was written by the No. 2 political official at the Pentagon, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England. He said the goals must be completed or pushed to a major milestone by December, 2008 -- the last full month of George W. Bush's presidency.

"As you are aware, the end objective is to complete or advance to a major milestone each of these initiatives and also to have them institutionalized by December, 2008," England wrote to the top military and defense officials inside the Pentagon.

"Completing these initiatives by the end of next year will be greatly beneficial to the next management team and to our military forces," he said.

According to one U.S. official, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called for the list in May or June, ordering all Pentagon divisions and military branches to submit goals that could be achieved before the end of the administration.

Bush was briefed on the list this month, England said.


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1. Jesus, the neocons have already shreadded the U.S. Constitution

....and pushed the country into an endless war and pretty much accomplished all of the goals laid out in PNAC!

Now they want 25 more things? Like what? Unlease WW-IV and a full nuclear exchange with all countries which possess atomic weapons?

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2. England's Share

Gordon England, previously Secretary of the Navy, was a General Dynamics contractor and a former president of Lockheed.

The Pentagon engineered the largest defense contract in U.S. military history in 2003, a potential $250 billion deal that called for the construction of approximately 6000 Joint Strike Fighter combat planes.

On October 26, 2003 Air Force Secretary and former Northrup president James G. Roche, awarded the JSF contract to Lockheed-Martin and Northrop-Grumman. The only other competitor was Boeing. The order which stretches over 40 years, calls for the development and manufacturing of 3000 fighters to be used by the Air Force, Navy and Marines.

England served as president of Lockheed's Fort Worth division, which builds the fighter planes.

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3. Hell of an article - it doesn't even tell you what the list items are

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4. keep an eye out

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5. That's what I was looking for, maybe a list of what neocons have already

...accomplished fro themselves plus the 25 more things they wish to accomplish to completely bury the U.S. of A. :wtf:

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7. star wars, new nukes,

. . . iran

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6. and what objective does the Nancy have?