and so it begins, a leading neocon's wish list.

[G_j]

Neocons Gone Wild

by Jim Lobe, InterPress News Service

And so it begins. Last week a leading neocon published his wish list.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/neocons_gone_wild.php

An influential foreign-policy neoconservative with close and long-standing ties to top hawks in the George W. Bush administration has laid out what he calls ''a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term.''

The list, which begins with the destruction of Falluja in Iraq and ends with the development of ''appropriate strategies'' for dealing with threats posed by China, Russia and ''the emergence of a number of aggressively anti-American regimes in Latin America,'' calls for ''regime change'' in Iran and North Korea.

The list's author, Frank Gaffney, the founder and president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), also warns that the Bush administration should resist any pressure arising from the anticipated demise of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to resume peace talks that could result in Israel's giving up ''defensible boundaries.''

While all seven steps Gaffney listed in an article published Friday morning in the National Review Online have long been favoured by prominent neocons, the article itself, entitled 'Worldwide Value', is the first comprehensive compilation to emerge since Bush's re-election Tuesday.

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[rkc3]

1. Time to get the vaseline ready - we're about to get screwed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. you said it man

welcome to WW III, they wanted it, and am afraid where this will end

[kayell]

3. More proof neo-cons are delusional

just in case we didn't have enough already.

''The reality is that the same moral principles that underpinned the Bush appeal on 'values' issues like gay marriage, stem-cell research, and the right to life were central to his vision of U.S. war aims and foreign policy,'' Gaffney wrote. ''Indeed, the president laid claim square to the ultimate moral value—freedom—as the cornerstone of his strategy for defeating our Islamofascist enemies and their state sponsors, for whom that concept is utterly (sic) anathema.''

[aden_nak]

4. Gaffney is a New American Century signer.

Which means he has Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld as a lock to back him. Shit, they probably contributed.

[cassiepriam]

5. Holy Hell

They are talking about WW III and IV!!!!!!
These people are totally insane.
The irony is they will kill half the world
in the name of freedom, when we no longer have
any here at home.

[G_j]

6. I often said

another Bush term could mean a nuclear exchange somewhere.
I hope I'm wrong, but these people wouldn't think twice.

[MatrixEscape]

8. And we all know ...

How a worst case scenario could go with any "nuclear exchange". This is something many of us worried about during the Cold War.

A small exchange or two ... then some major players get involved ... then they start trading major cities as collateral damage ... then it is soon way out of hand ... the MIRV's start launching.

The final exchange would take less than an hour for all sides to destroy each other. Ah, the miracle of science!

Then it's bye-bye modern civilization and hello stone age!

[G_j]

9. "the miracle of science"

But...they don't believe in science (unless it can be used to kill large numbers of people)

[cassiepriam]

10. yes, it would suit their purposes

to a tee. Just like 9/11. Will justify anything
they want to do. The sheeple will not say a word.
And loss of life means nothing to them, nothing at
all.

[deadparrot]

7. So, if the Bush people are thinking along the same lines....

how long before they start the draft?