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• Saturday, May 17, 2008 06:56 AM

  since Oliver North was mentioned

  Let me poke another little hole in CounterPunch. The generally excellent article by Robert Weitzel that I mentioned a few threads ago seems to destroy its own credibility here:

  "The CNP was formed in 1981 as an umbrella organization to advance an ultra-conservative, right wing Christian agenda. LaHaye’s particular agenda items include replacing U.S. secular law with Old Testament biblical law and a Middle East foreign policy that expedites the Second Coming. According to the New York Times, the CNP consists of “a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country” who meet “behind closed doors at undisclosed locations…to strategize about how to turn the country to the right.” Though the membership of the CNP is a guarded secret, a list of those known to have been associated with it reads like a who’s who of Christian Zionists and neocon ideologues whose passion is to see the Middle East in flames and in chains. A short list includes: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, former Attorney Generals John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, the late Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Phyllis Schlafly, and Oliver North — the guy who sold weapons to Iran using Israel as the middleman. Do not be blindsided. The CNP is a major player in domestic and foreign policy decisions and the “evil” that results."

  http://www.counterpunch.org/weitzel05142008.html

  -- It's absurd to imagine that hard boiled pragmatic realpolitikers waste their time discussing the dispensationalist theory of history, in either its pre-millenarian or post-millenarian variants, doesn't it? This is just like Franklin Lamb - it spoils a good argument, by embellishing it implausibly for effect.

  —Rowan Berkeley Read Rowan Berkeley's other letters
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