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Sunday, November 07, 2004

The Neo-Con Dream Team

The lineup will be reshuffled, but the bench is deep. Now that the Bush administration has been given the ball for another four years, the neo-conservative dream team is ready to run with it.

"Regime change -- one way or another -- in Iran and North Korea," figures prominently in a list outlined by neo-conservative thinker Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP), who has influential ties to administration hawks.

Crushing Fallujah (now about to begin), dealing with France and Germany's counter-power to Washington expansion, and resisting new negotiations with Palestinians are also on the list.

So is the long-standing goal of "deploying effective missile defenses at sea and in space."

According to recent talk by another administration insider, the complete militarization of space is also on the table, going beyond the recent abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to also abrogate the Treaty for Peaceful Uses of Space.

According to the Project for a New American Century's (PNAC) 2000 document, "Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century," the objective is to "control the new international commons of space...and pave the way for the creation of a new military service -- U.S. Space Forces -- with the mission of space control."

"Space as a key theater of war," according to that PNAC document.

"...while we fight World War IV," writes Gaffney.

The neo-conservative vision of a perpetual "war without end" has been given another four years to implement American empire, much to the detriment of the American people and the world community.

While it was merely a campaign slogan, the "Stronger at Home, Respected in the World" mantra of the Kerry campaign is now little more than a cruel joke for half of America and most of the world.

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