WHAT TOOK AMERlCA SO LONG TO WAKE UP TO THE FACT THAT NEOCON STRATEGIES WERE DOOMED FOR FAILURE?
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Well, on the surface things look pretty bleak for Republicans. Historically speaking, this is no surprise. However, it is not as bad as it seems!\n\nHistory of mid-term elections: Any time the United States has been at war during a mid-term election, there has been a shift in power. The deaths from the war are never easy to take and as a whole, Americans do not have the stomach nor heart to endure continued losses, even for a good cause. This election's shift in power is no big surprise. However, there's a silver lining...\n\nSeveral of the gains made by Democrats were by conservative democrats. Joe Lieberman, a registered and caucased Dem, ran against his own party's nominee as an independant... and WON! Joe is a conservative Dem that supports the cause of fighting terror. So if the war in Iraq is the cause for the shift in power, why were conservatives elected? While a majority of Americans feel things are going wrong in Iraq, they still understand the reason we are there. We are NOT supporting the Dem's idea of passing the baton of victory to the terrorists, but instead, want to be open-minded that we need a new strategy that will better ensure victory.\n\nAnother gleeming hope for Republicans is the fact that referendums this election tend to favor conservatism. Several states banned same sex marriage. One state banned abortion. Basically, while there was a cry for change in power, a majority of Americans still cling to conservative views. \n\nWatch for Joe Lieberman to rally other Conservative Dems in the Senate. Should the VA seat fold to a Dem, the control they hoped for is still not locked. Joe and a handfull of Conservative Dems will still swing a good deal of power to the President on issues of the war on terrorism.\n\nAs far as Iraq goes, look for a change in strategy from the Bush admin. Bush will not cave to withdraw the troops totally but the Dems in the House will control the purse-strings, so Bush may make some concessions. With so much divide in Iraq amongst it's own people, there may be more talk of dividing Iraq. Keep in mind Iraq was actually three seperately governed territories until the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WW I; Vilayet of Mosul, Vilayet of Bagdad, & Vilayet of Basra. These could be carved out again, allowing the Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites to have some sort of atonomy which may bring about peace.
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That is the NEOCON agenda.  With the collapse of the Soviet Union, some bright men with nothing to do got tired of playing Risk, and graduated to Global Politics.  They concluded that in this power vacuum, it would be a really good idea for the US to assert itself while it had the chance, aiming at a kind of PAX or Power Americana, another name for world domination.  This all happened while we were all asleep, without our being consulted, and we now find ourselves trying to figure out how we got into this mess, the latest being Afghanistan and Iraq.  These guys are for real, and they are plundering along the way.  No one has ever succeeded at this throughout history, but they are giving it another shot,  as they figure by the time anyone catches on, they will be set and on their private island some where.  It is always the general population that has to suffer these guys, paying in blood, destruction, and chaos.  No one ever believes this can be until it is way too late.  The "big lie" has been used over and over for a very long time to cover this behavior up, and no matter how many times it is used, they always seem to initially get away with it.  They say if you don't know history you are doomed to repeat it, and here we are again.  That must be why we don't teach real history in our schools, so this kind of thing can happen.
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We already learned.   The neocon policy of never-ending war is over.  No one will ever listen to them again.  Celebration!
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George Bush and his cronies have taken America into a dark place. America has lost its morality, its sense of purpose, and any justifiable claim to be leader of the 'free' world.\n\nUnder Bush, in a remarkably short period characterised by the complacency of the American people, America has become a failed State. \n\nThese are the words of Noam Chomsky:\n\n"Failed States are unable or unwilling to protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction. They regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, hence free to carry out aggression and violence. And if they have democratic forms, they suffer from a serious "democratic deficit" that deprives their formal democratic institutions of real substance. \n\nOne of the hardest tasks that anyone can undertake, and among the most important, is to look honestly in the mirror. If we allow ourselves to do so, we should have little difficulty in finding the characteristics of "failed states" right at home".\n\nMr Chomsky is a controversial character, but these particular words hit home.\n\nCome on America, take a long and honest look in the mirror. In every respect, Mr Bush had made America an uglier place.
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NEOCONS ARE BRAINWASHED TWITS.
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They have primarily fallen for a sloppy sales-pitch/psyop.  The same way any fascist comes to power, on the backs of conservative right-wingers propelled by terror.  9/11 was a scare that shocked everyone.  The administration already had a plan in place to deal with just such a scare (convenient, eh?).  When our media was deregulated and allowed to be bought by a few (conservative) conglomerates, our fate was sealed as a nation.  Investigative journalism became a thing of the past.  Hard facts suddenly had a "liberal bias", and were subject to partisan nit-picking.\n\n9/11 was spun the world as a wild and dangerous place.  Americans living abroad (like myself) felt a lot of frustration with the folks back home convinced the world was out to get us when we knew differently from experience.  People susceptable to manipulation fell for it, a few other succombed out of hysteria, but the media told no other alternative.  Terror alerts (sit, jump, roll-over, stay, sit!) were put to good use, Osama bin Laden, long-time Rumsfeld ally and Bush family business partner, was demonized despite claiming the contrary.  Evidence for the case for 2 wars so badly doctored it would have been comical if not for the consequences.  People began to wake up, but slowly.  A very fake bin Laden tape released 4 days before the 2004 election though sent the swing vote back in Bush's favor...that, and election tampering that can't be proven because Bush kicked out the UN election inspectors in '04 (media didn't say peep in the US).\n\nBush has gotten even bolder, and has rendered through his "signing statements" a new language.  His interpretation is that a signing statement can reverse or make him an exception to and act or bill passed by Congress.  He has done exactly this almost 800 times now in 6 years.  Clinton, by contrast, had done this less than 60 times in 8 years.  Bush Sr, 159 times in 4 years.\n\nHe has rendered Congress irrelevent in this way.  Completely.  By claiming "state secrecy", he has also rendered any judicial overview completely useless.\n\nWe live in a dictatorship, ladies and gentlemen.  30% of us actually like it that way.  Like an abused woman that won't leave her spouse, that 30% prefers the illusion of security over any sense of real freedom.
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Its been happening for ages, Gangus Con, Julius Cesar,Adolf Hittler, and now George Bush. Its the never ending struggle for Power. What seperates Bush from all the others is that they didnt try to mask there intensions. Just about every SuperPower in history lasted about 100 years before there fall. As I see it, the U.S. has been the "Big Boy on the block for at least that long give or take a decade. If history repeats itself as in the past, were due to take a fall. Sooner or later, all Bullys fall.
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Most Amerians are not represented by the party in power that stole the last 2 presidential elections.  These Neocon Republicans are good at siezing power, but they only have the support of just over a third of the American people.
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Brilliant!!!! The conservatives, traditionalists, and republicans would be wise to start coalescing, and forming a strategy now. Many of your Ideas are doable, and would be a great platform to run on. Count me in. Many of these things could have been acted upon during the past six years, but partisan thinking reared it's ugly head and those years were wasted. The republicans will return, and take the country in a proper direction, not just a (new direction).
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The American people have never been thrilled with the long-term concept of empire.\n\nThe neocons will burn in hell.
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Not long.  \n\nThe voters had a temper tantrum.  \n\nWe weren't able to get our message out to the voters.\n\nThe elections were stolen.\n\nAny of the above sound familiar?  Those were Democrat excuses.  You'll hear none of that from us Conservatives.  We lost Congress fair and square because we didn't perform, because we didn't live up to our ideals of less gov't, less pork, and more accountability.
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It's like when you roll a snowball down a mountain, it just gets bigger and bigger. After losing 2 straight elections the demoratic party's hacks were so disillusioned, they went into desparate smear and attack mode on anything G.O.P. Now, with groups like moveon.org and other left wing propoganda peddlers in overdrive, it has gotten a bit out of control.
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It might have been the "Thoroughly Mental Misadventures of Senator Ed Grimley," and if so ...\n\nWe are as doomed as doomed can be!
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I assume you mean the takeover by Mandela and company?  Terrorism and the intervention of American bleeding-heart liberals is how it was "incorporated into the world system".  Since then their economy has gone to hell in a hand basket and is not getting any better.  The people who took over were the old communists wearing a different name.  Read your history.  If they haven't rewritten it already.
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well, REAL Republicans will seek to work with their fellow Americans for the betterment of our country.  the neoCONNED, on the other hand, will never ever give up their venomous attacks, projecting the failures of their ideologies onto others.  if they did they'd have to take responsibility for their failures and they simply can not do that.  too uncomfortable.
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They (we) don't look or sound ready for a revolution; but I'm game.\n\nBut don't kid yourself: The right-wingers are more than ready. They have numbers and money and they're convinced they're the good guys. How do you beat that?
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I think it is partly because the US government has been so bogged down in the mess it has created in Iraq and Afghanistan that it hasn't got the resources to impose its agenda on South America, and people are waking up, too.  As a consequence of American imposed policies through IMF, World Bank, puppet regimes, training secret police and torturers to cut dissent, etc.  millions and millions of people have been exploited, but as the saying goes, you can't fool all the people all the time...so now presidents who are more sensitive to people's agenda instead of catering to US interests and the corporate agenda are being elected.  For example in the case of Chavez in Venezuela, US tried to bring about a coup and get rid of him, but thank God it didn't work...times aren't like they were when the democratically elected president of Chile was killed and replaced by the monster, General Pinochet.  And God willing, this just the beginning...I hope American people will wake up, too, because they are also being betrayed.