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the neocons like to regard themselves as tough and intellectually rigorous, but they are marked by nothing so much as the sheer dishonesty of their warmongering.
and even if there is a democrat in the white house for years to come, they will not go away, they will not be silenced. witness PNAC and the 1998 Iraq resolution stewarded through Congress with the help of the likes of lieberman that set the stage for the 2003 invasion.
it's almost irrelevant to them who's in power, because they will get paid handsomely regardless. what's unfathomable is why they have anyone's ear, either of elected officials or of the media. unfathomable, that is, unless the truth of these bush years becomes self-evident: that the levers of power are exerted on behalf of a military industrial complex that is the nation's true permanent establishment.
