Neocon's and Suvsoccermoms got what they wanted. Now they they they have called the tune, we all have to pay the piper. It's not something to be happy about. Either outcome in November is going to be a backlash, not a well thought out vote, and I feel very sad for our countrymen in Iraq, for the Iraqis themselves, and for my country which has been goaded into empire building by a small minority who hijacked the Republican Party.
I can be pretty ascerbic about this, and because of that, I won't say anything further on the matter now (not that anyone gives a damn), and instead quote the very learned statesman Pat Buchanan:
In the run-up to the invasion, when critics were exposing their plotting for war long before 9/11, the neocons did not bother to deny it. They reveled in it. They boasted about who they were, where they came from, what they believed, how they were different, and how they had become the new elite. With Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush marching to their war drums, one of them bellowed, ?We are all neoconservatives now!?But it is always unwise of courtiers to boast of their influence with the prince. And now the neocons have outed themselves. We all know who they are. We all have the coordinates. We all have them bracketed.
With the heady days of the fall of Baghdad behind us and our country ensnared in a Lebanon of our own, neocons seem fearful that it is they who will be made to take the fall if it all turns out badly in Iraq, as McNamara and his Whiz Kids had to take the fall for Vietnam.
And this one they?ve got right