[lbo-talk] Bush Speech Alarms Even War Enthusiasts

[Gregory Lipman]

For all you Neo and Paleo-con playa haters this round-up of their current
"thoughts" (for lack of a better word) regarding the Bush junta's Iraq
"policy" (again, for lack of a better word) should be a treat. A few choice
quotes:
"It was important for Bush to remind the American public of the cost of
failure," said Michael Rubin, an analyst at the American Enterprise
Institute and another neoconservative war supporter. "Basically, Bush was
letting us see the forest through the trees."
However, he said, "the devil's in the details, and with the stakes so high,
we can't ignore the details."
[Huh? Obviously working in the Pointless Cliches Dept.]
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"The truth is it wouldn't take much actually to turn this around, not that
they necessarily will," said Gary Schmitt, executive director of the Project
for a New American Century, a leading neoconservative think tank. "There are
a lot of very positive trends going on in Iraq, and I think if you take care
of the security situation and the political trend lines toward real
elections, in fact I think Iraq is more than salvageable."
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[And a little editoralizing from the reporter? Heh-heh]
Some contend that neoconservatives resemble the communists they once
ridiculed, blaming the failures of communist ideology on the Kremlin's
execution.
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The full article is here if you wish to indulge:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/26/MNGFR6RT7I1.D
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