Reply #70: I think you "misunderestimate" the neocons. [View All]

[allemand]

According to General Clark they (the civilian side of the Pentagon) had a list of countries in line for regime change after Iraq.

According to Seymour Hersh we came pretty close to war with Syria:
"I don't have any empirical basis for it, but if I had to bet, the plan was to go right into Syria. That's why the fourth division was hanging for so long in the desert out there right on the border with Syria. In the early days of the war, before this government figured out how much trouble they were in -- which took them a long time -- they would drive practice runs, somebody told me. Again, I'm just saying what was told to me; this is not something I reported, but I was told pretty reliably, they were doing practice runs that amounted to the distance from the border to Damascus."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/18/hersh_interview/index2.html

And the first country Powell visited after the fall of Baghdad was - Syria.

No wonder neocons also wanted Powell to resign:
"In the early winter of 2002, a co-worker U.S. Navy captain and I were discussing the service being rendered by Colin Powell at the time, and we were told by the neoconservative political appointee David Schenker that "the best service Powell could offer would be to quit right now.""
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/index2.html

Further recommended reading:
The State Department's extreme makeover
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/10/04/foggybottom/index.html

I agree that Powell should resign now, but not in March 2003.