{"id":2176,"date":"2008-05-16T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2008-05-16T20:12:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T01:12:45","slug":"losing-an-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/16\/losing-an-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"losing an old friend…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in 2004, after the elections when I found myself sinking into a real funk about Bush’s reelection and I tried to start understanding what was going on, I started reading about the C.I.A. Leak case and Judith Miller. But then I came across the Project for the New American Century<\/strong>.<\/div>\n

I just didn’t know about such things – Neoconservatives<\/strong>, the Project for the New American Century<\/strong>, <\/strong>the American Enterprise Institute<\/strong>, the Federalist Society<\/strong>, the Hudson Institute<\/strong>, etc. Those of us who read the blogs do know that history, about the rise of  the Neoconservatives and their incorporation into the Bush Administration. We know about the plan to unseat Saddam Hussein that antedated Bush’s election. We know about Paul Wolfowitz’s Defense Guidance of 1991 that morphed into the Bush Doctrine. We’ve read about Michael Ledeen and Laurie Mylroie, some of the early anti-Iranian anti-Iraqi Hawks. We’ve read first hand the early venom of John Bolton, or the place of Richard Perle, or the Kagans or the Kristols. To us, it’s a coherent picture of a right wing takeover of our government with a long history and a lot of key players. But many, maybe most have no idea of the places where all of this craziness originated.<\/p>\n

Over the last few years, I returned to http:\/\/www.newamericancentury.org<\/a><\/strong> over and over. While I was usually looking up something like who signed the Clinton letter?<\/em> or who were the P.N.A.C. founders?, <\/em>I think a lot of my visits were for a reminder that this whole neoconservative lunacy was real. Somehow, seeing it there in black and white helped me to not get concerned that I was making something up. Those people really did do what I thought they did.<\/p>\n

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In the last day or so, the site has been taken down, or they forgot to pay their bill, and one gets the above "This Account Has Been Suspended" message. I’ll miss it. It’s been a reminder of the painful truth of the past. Fortunately, I [and plenty of other people] have downloaded the whole site to a cdrom. So if I get to missing it too much, I can always bring it up to reinform me of the origins of the Neoconservative Junta that took over my country in 2000…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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