Conservatives Need to be Educated

RE Liberals vs Bush November 21 claims that liberals should educate themselves by reading the Weekly Standard displays outrageous ignorance.

The Weekly Standard is written by Bill Kristol, founder of a neoconservative movement “Project for a New American Century� (PNAC). PNAC members include Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bolton, Richard Perle, William Bennett and Jeb Bush.

The PNAC plan devised by this cabal of war fanatics proposed a “transformationâ€? of the U.S. military into an imperialistic force capable of dictating terms to all nations. It contemplated the use of nuclear weapons pre-emptively to achieve their goals. Since Americans would not be amenable to such a plan, a catalyzing catastrophic event was seen as necessary. 

“The process of transformation,� the plan said, “is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.�

Hence, 9/11.

The majority of Americans understand that our president intentionally “misled� us into war, and continues to falsely assert a connection between 9/11 and Iraq.

It is not liberals who need to be educated. Those that need to be re-educated are those who rely on right-wing radio and neocon propaganda from such sources as the Weekly Standard, Fox News and the Bush administration.

Cathlyn Daly