{"id":357,"date":"2004-02-21T05:24:14","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T09:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=357"},"modified":"2004-02-21T05:24:14","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T09:24:14","slug":"neocons-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Neocons to the rescue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Kristol appeared on C-Span&#8217;s <i>Washington Journal<\/i> this week. <\/p>\n<p>The man is completely insane.<\/p>\n<p>One caller basically told him the same [as did the majority]. She also stated her belief that the Bushies have captured Osama bin Laden and will bring him out for an election surprise sometime nearer November.<\/p>\n<p>Kristol considers &#8216;conspiracy theories&#8217;, this one in particular, absurd. He ticked off numerous titles in the chain of command then went on to include the &#8216;millions of service people&#8217; who would need to remain silent in order to pull this off.  Does that seem reasonable, he asked?<\/p>\n<p>Is it reasonable to assume <i>all<\/i> Americans are that stupid? I don&#8217;t know if they have OSB on ice, but it wouldn&#8217;t require &#8216;a conspiracy of millions&#8217; to keep it under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>He then went on to say that the Bush administration wouldn&#8217;t dream of politicising the &#8216;war&#8217;.  He said it with a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Mehlman sent out an excerpt of John Podhoretz&#8217;s latest pro-Bush column.  They appear on a regular basis in the <i>New York Post<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently his opinion is so valuable <a href=\"http:\/\/pqasb.pqarchiver.com\/nypost\/546422031.html?did=546422031&#038;FMT=ABS&#038;FMTS=FT&#038;date=Feb+17,+2004&#038;desc=DUBYA+DENIAL+-+LIBS+FALL+BACK+ON+CONTEMPT\">you would need to purchase it<\/a> to read it even though it was published just a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest you save your money unless you&#8217;re in the Bush pom-pom brigade and need a new cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I recommend two articles that are invaluable:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/docprint.mhtml?i=20040223&#038;s=lind\">A <b>Tragedy of Errors<\/b><\/a> by MICHAEL LIND<\/p>\n<p><b>The Neocon War on Peace and Freedom<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/freedom\/fd0404c.asp\">Part 1<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/freedom\/fd0405c.asp\">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by James Bovard, April 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Kristol appeared on C-Span&#8217;s Washington Journal this week. The man is completely insane. One caller basically told him the same [as did the majority]. She also stated her belief that the Bushies have captured Osama bin Laden and will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=357\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-5L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}