[lbo-talk] Civil war in Iraq: the pause that refreshes

[Leigh Meyers]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Colin Brace wrote:
>
>> For the most radical-right neoconservative Jacobins amongst the
>> Bush-Cheney team, the possibility that Iraq might fall apart wasn't
>> even alarming: they just didn't care, and in their obsessive zeal to
>> overthrow Saddam Hussein they were more than willing to take the risk.
>
> Obviously, but these guys aren't in charge anymore, are they?
>
Repeating, from a previous post:

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The neocons are far from fucked, Wolfie's at the WB, and John Bolton
is our representative at the UN (although not very effectual, see below).
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of people who have been insinuated
in the US government that hold exactly the same beliefs, but you'll 
never see
their names in print unless they do something atrociously stupid from the
confines of their cubies.
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