Rove and Wolfowitz's role

Brad Mayer bradley.mayer at sun.com
Sun Feb 23 22:50:30 PST 2003


This may conviently ignore the fact that this ilk has been embedded in "the guts of capital" for quite some time, and only now have been upchucked.

That is, the causes of Dubyas' Excellent Middle Eastern Adventure may go beyond the accidental and contingent to (shudder) the structural...

-Brad Mayer, who's taking bets on whether the Dems 'reverse' this 'accident' when they get back in, in 2008. Includes Patriot Act, Homeland Security, War Powers giveaway, "Uprooting the Colonialist Infrastructure", etc.


>http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,901066,00.html

Much of this is known here, but it is good to have it in one place. And I think it's a useful counter to the FROP/overaccumulation explanations of the anti-Iraq campaign, since it shows the bellicosity emerging from a specific and relatively narrow set of ideological and even electoral interests, and not the guts of capital.

Doug



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