FROM NEOCONS TO NEOCOLS

As Blair pledges fealty to his imperial master the march of the Neocons and the religious right continues. As Fallujah burns and the world waits for the next bitter twist in US Neocolonialism, its worth considering the re-shuffle happening in the putative world government.

There’s a bit of cheeky revisionism happening already about former military-leader Colin Powell, now re-written as a dangerous liberal when he was clearly responsible for some horrific acts of violence and malleable as a muppet twisted into a useful PR stunt as a black man in government. More fool him but you could argue that with his departure the blinkers may be off this regimes intentions.

But as this article points out, not only does his public image not tally with his record in office, his replacement arrives with an even more bizarre record of failure:

“As secretary of state (Powell) has been a peripheral figure, even a fig leaf, ever since his climactic moment before the UN security council on which he staked his credibility. There he presented the case that WMD in Iraq required war, a case consisting of 26 falsehoods, and about which he later claimed to have been "deceived". When the statue of Saddam was toppled, he offered President Bush 17 volumes of his Future of Iraq project, but it was rejected. Predicting everything from the looting to the insurgency, and suggesting how it might be avoided, the project was politically incorrect.
Powell had wanted to stay on for the first six months of Bush's second term to help shepherd a new Middle East peace process, but the president insisted on his resignation. Condoleezza Rice was named in his place. She had failed at every important task as national security adviser, pointedly neglecting terrorism before September 11, enthusiastically parroting the false claim that Saddam had a nuclear weapons programme, while suppressing contrary intelligence, mismanaging her part of postwar policy so completely that she had to cede it to a deputy, and eviscerating the Middle East road map.”
Sounds like she’s the right man for the job…

Full article here.

1 comment

You would be talking german by now if it wasnt for us you ungrateful commy scum.

left by Max on 22 November 2004