Having read Wurmser, Perle and the rest of the crazies I knew that their plan was always to partition the country [Iraq].

Most people get tripped up in the layers of lies that are propagated about Iraq. The biggest lie out there is incompetency. That is the answer to everything---- makes liberals feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Because they are smarter than Cheney, Bush, Schultz, Rumsfeld. They are all a bunch of idiots---right? Sorry but no. Not everything goes according to plan for these people. If they had stabilized Iraq under a nice American puppet dictator and gotten the oil law passed that would have been the ideal for them. But, making tons of cash off chaos is a nice fall back.

I was reading The Future of Iraq Plan that Powell put together and was declassified in 2006. www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB198/index.htm

I am sure that Obama will dust it off if he takes office. It falls under the category of Smart Empire or Long term over Short term profits. The plan talks about building up the infrastructure first and then privatizing. It talks about building up employment in Iraq. I would be willing to bet that if Powell had gotten 500 thousand troops in, kept the Baath bureaucracy, co-opted Saddam's military industrial complex, then at least Iraq could have avoided the genocide that is now taking place. You really should read the plan---- it's a lot better than what took place. They would have put in some form of LDP into a permanent position of power.

Instead they went with the Bearing Point Plan--- Privatize everything and shock the shit out them. Steal all their money and put the army, government and factory workers out of work. Obama is all about bringing Baker, Scowcroft, Powell and the GHWB crowd back into control. It's going to be Smart Empire. Frankly, I am looking forward to it. All this talk of having out and out evil in office instead of wolves in sheep clothing is a lot of Hokum. McCain will bring us to the brink of WWIII---- no question about it. He will appoint all the PNAC crowd and take us to war against Iran and most likely Russia. I think that the potential for extinction of all life on this planet is very high if McCain is elected.

Zbigniew and his crowd are about stability. I really don't think they will risk the closing of the Straight of Hormuz by attacking Iran. Baker wanted to use diplomacy with Syria and Iran. We need some new Mafia dons---- Bring back Vito Scowcroft---- We have had enough of the coke sniffing Scarfaces in office now. If Obama is elected I will dance in the street like all the other Democrats and I will feel good about it because I know what I am getting. I have read all the backgrounds of his team of realists and I know the alternative----- Cheney, Schultz, Woolsey, Perle, Ledeen----- these people are fucking lunatics. They want to use strategic nuclear weapons. I would be willing to bet that Abizaid, Shineski, Baker, Brezenski, Powell, Hamilton, Haas, Mearsheimer, Walt and the rest of the smart empire people would never blithely use nuclear weapons.

Biden is really the best we can hope for at this point. I will be overjoyed if he is elected. There really is a split in the elite. They both want American Empire but strategy is important. Personalities do matter. Grandpa Psycho is just another incarnation of Cheney, only maybe worse. Isn't there something very Cheney about him?--- there is a rot in his soul. He is on the verge of death like Cheney and he is angry and mean spirited and has the same sick sense of humor. There is something positively death-like about McCain and Cheney. They fall into the dubious category of being in the elite class of psychos in history with Curtis LeMay, Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Ledeen has that same look about him--- like he is already dead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwMspCM-SY4 There is no humanity in his eyes. This may be naive of me but I put a lot of stock in this assessment. You look at Cheney, Putin, Rumsfeld, Ledeen, McCain--------- they are like the walking dead. These men can not be compromised because their is no morality left to compromise.

Bush is not quite up to their level of evil----- this business of killing people is not easy for our frat boy in chief. I think that is why he started drinking again. On some level Bush suffers pangs of conscience. But Cheney is so dead inside that the possibility of war, death and dictatorship is the only thing that is keeping him alive. I think that McCain is so dead inside that he could push the button and vaporize millions. McCain is like Conrad's Lord Jim----- when it came time for him to be courageous he made propaganda speeches for the North Vietnamese. This eats away at him. He knows that he wasn't the war hero that he is being portrayed as but on some level he thinks---- I could be that guy. I just need another chance. He wants to redeem himself in a cauldron of war. There is something pathological about him. If he were in power today, he would try to send troops to Georgia.

What is interesting about the post-Iraq history that I am reading is that the realists were able to rein in Cheney. GHWB still had some control over his son--- the military was in a position to veto Iran, but if Grandpa gets a mandate we'll be at war with Iran within weeks.