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Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion

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  • Thursday, April 5, 2007 01:13 PM

    Bush is a simpleton...

    He was misled by the Neo-cons, the Israel Lobby and their Christian fundementalist buddies. They had him living in an alternate universe where Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ready to give to al-qaida and where Saddam was responsible for 9/11!

    The neocons, many of whom having close ideological links with Israel's fascist Likud party, succeeded in what they set out to do from the start: Implement the Israeli right-wing views of giving Israel a strategic advantage in reshaping its "realm" as they themselves outlined in "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm co-authored by leading neocons (Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser), for the Netanyahu government.

    Sadly, America is now stuck with the consequences of this foolish and destructive policy!

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