AP Gets Rather Bold in Detailing Neocons' Disastrous Back Pages

Associated Press Gets Rather Bold in Detailing Neocons' Disastrous Back Pages

An important signpost: The Associated Press has referred to the neocon cell, the Project for the New American Century, and Bill Kristol et al's dreams of reforming the Middle East in a piece on McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann. Back in the day only us conspiracy theorists on the left used to bring this stuff up. Writes Pete Yost:

Scheunemann is part of the community of neoconservatives who relentlessly pushed for war in Iraq... No one in Washington is more closely aligned with the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq than prominent neoconservatives, who for years had regime change in Iraq as a goal as part of their philosophy that the United States shouldn't be reluctant to use its power, both diplomatic and military, to spread democracy and to guarantee world order...

Scheunemann was on board with the Project for the New American Century, whose letter to Bush nine days after the Sept. 11 attacks pointed to Iraq as a possible link to the terrorists....The letter said American forces must be prepared to support "by all means necessary" the U.S. government's commitment to opponents of Saddam Hussein.... Scheunemann was among the letter's 37 signers, a Who's Who of neoconservative luminaries including William Kristol and Richard Perle.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/13/politics/p095112D25.DTL&feed=rss.news

(thanks Phil Weiss)

tongue bath.