Neocons,
theocons, Demcons, excons, and future cons
By William Blum
07/10/07 "ICH"
--- - Who do you think said this on June 20? a)Rudy
Giuliani; b)Hillary Clinton; c)George Bush; d)Mitt Romney;
or e)Barack Obama?
"The American military has done its job. Look what they
accomplished. They got rid of Saddam Hussein. They gave the
Iraqis a chance for free and fair elections. They gave the
Iraqi government the chance to begin to demonstrate that it
understood its responsibilities to make the hard political
decisions necessary to give the people of Iraq a better
future. So the American military has succeeded. It is the
Iraqi government which has failed to make the tough
decisions which are important for their own people."[1]
Right, it was the woman who wants to be president because
... because she wants to be president ... because she thinks
it would be nice to be president ... no other reason, no
burning cause, no heartfelt desire for basic change in
American society or to make a better world ... she just
thinks it would be nice, even great, to be president. And
keep the American Empire in business, its routine generating
of horror and misery being no problem; she wouldn't want to
be known as the president that hastened the decline of the
empire.
And she spoke the above words at the "Take Back America"
conference; she was speaking to liberals, committed liberal
Democrats. She didn't have to cater to them with any
flag-waving pro-war rhetoric; they wanted to hear anti-war
rhetoric (and she of course gave them a bit of that as well
out of the other side of her mouth), so we can assume that
this is how she really feels, if indeed the woman feels
anything.
Think of why you are opposed to the war. Is it not largely
because of all the unspeakable suffering brought down upon
the heads and souls of the poor people of Iraq by the
American military? Hillary Clinton couldn't care less about
that, literally. She thinks the American military has
"succeeded". Has she ever unequivocally labeled the war
"illegal" or "immoral"? I used to think that Tony Blair was
a member of the right wing or conservative wing of the
British Labour Party. I finally realized one day that that
was an incorrect description of his ideology. Blair is a
conservative, a bloody Tory. How he wound up in the Labour
Party is a matter I haven't studied. Hillary Clinton,
however, I've long known is a conservative; going back to at
least the 1980s, while the wife of the Arkansas governor,
she strongly supported the death squad torturers known as
the Contras, who were the empire's proxy army in
Nicaragua.[2]
Now we hear from America's venerable conservative magazine,
William Buckley's "National Review", an editorial by Bruce
Bartlett, policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan;
treasury official under President George H.W. Bush; a fellow
at two of the leading conservative think-tanks, the Heritage
Foundation and the Cato Institute; you get the picture.
Bartlett tells his readers that it's almost certain that the
Democrats will win the White House in 2008. So what to do?
Support the most conservative Democrat. He writes: "To
right-wingers willing to look beneath what probably sounds
to them like the same identical views of the Democratic
candidates, it is pretty clear that Hillary Clinton is the
most conservative."[3]
We also hear from America's premier magazine for the
corporate wealthy, "Fortune", whose recent cover features a
picture of Clinton and the headline: "Business Loves
Hillary".[4]
Do those in love with the idea of a woman president care
about such things? Have they never heard of Margaret
Thatcher, who tried her best to cripple the UK's marvelous
National Health Service, amongst a hundred other reactionary
policies? Most of Clinton's supporters would love to see the
end of the Iraqi daily horror and so they presumably will
also ignore Ted Koppel, the newsman of impeccable
establishment credentials, who reported recently that he was
told by someone who had held a senior position at the
Pentagon and occasionally briefs Hillary Clinton on Gulf
area matters, that she expects US troops to still be in Iraq
at the end of her first term and even at the end of her
second term.[5]
NOTES
[1] Speaking at the "Take Back America" conference,
organized by the Campaign for America's Future, June 20,
2007, Washington, DC; this excerpt can be heard at
democracynow.org/ - June 21.
[2] Roger Morris, former member of the National Security
Council, "Partners in Power" (1996), p.415
[3] National Review Online, May 1, 2007
[4] Fortune magazine, July 9, 2007
[5] National Public Radio, "All Things Considered", June 11,
2007
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