So has anyone here read all or part of the "Plan for a New American Century"? It was published as the manifesto of Cheney's neo con think tank in 1998. The concept here is that America is to become the new Roman Empire. Just as there was "Pax Romana" there is now to be "Pax Americano" - meaning like the Romans we use pre emptive military strikes as we pacify and stabilize the world.

Many of the PNAC group were hired directly into the Bush administration, including Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith. The excellent documentary "Why We Fight" shows video footage of Wolfowitz lecturing a large group in a cabinet meeting about Iraq. He was part of a Israeli agenda faction within the neo cons, and with absolutely NO military experience was telling others how easy an invasion and deposing Saddam would be.

I hold this group of neo cons directly responsible for our Iraq quagmire. And that starts at the top with Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld. We need to have a formal ceremony where we can make them eat their previous words, such as it would be a "cakewalk," it would only take a "couple of months," that Iraqis would "throw flowers at our feet," that "Iraq oil revenues would pay for the invasion and reconstruction."

Yes, they must bear a large part of the blame for our quagmire, and the neo cons need to get purged from government.

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