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ellenrr

(3,864 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 06:43 AM Jun 2014

Is Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream of Mass Regime Change in Muslim World?

(from Nov 2011, but still relevant)
"Political blogger Glenn Greenwald recently wrote about retired General Wesley Clark’s recollection of an officer telling him in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks that the then-U.S. Secretary of Defense had issued a memo outlining a plan for regime change within five years in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. We play an excerpt of Clark’s comments and ask Greenwald to respond.

"What struck me in listening to that video just a couple of days ago is that if you go down that list of seven countries that he said the neocons had planned to basically change the governments of, you pretty much see that that vision, despite the perception that we have a Democratic president and therefore the neoconservative movement is powerless, is pretty much being fulfilled," Greenwald says."

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/11/28/glenn_greenwald_is_obama_fulfilling_the

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Is Obama Fulfilling the Neocon Dream of Mass Regime Change in Muslim World? (Original Post) ellenrr Jun 2014 OP
What is happening in Iraq is not Obama's doing liberal N proud Jun 2014 #1
Except Jesus Malverde Jun 2014 #2

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)
1. What is happening in Iraq is not Obama's doing
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 06:46 AM
Jun 2014

The neocons let the genie out of the bottle when they took down Saddam and there is no putting it back in.

Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
2. Except
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 03:15 PM
Jun 2014

The training and arming of ISIS is being done by US Allies with US help. Syria is helping Maliki fight them meanwhile our friends funded and trained them. It's hard to say we're not involved seeing as they're being funded by the same country that is home to the navies fifth fleet. Qatar

Saudi arabias involvement with these extremists is well documented.

It's all seen as a counter point to Iran and a great game.

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