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'The National Security Archive is today publishing an expanded collection of core documents relating to the Iraq WMD debate. This update, taken from U.S. and British sources that have become available in recent months, is part of the Archive's Saddam Hussein Sourcebook, first posted in December 2002 and updated in February 2003'

don't know whether you guys ever visit this site much, but a very good resource and forum for anarchism:

http://www.infoshop.org/

you may remember some time ago i posted on Perle and Frum's new neocon manifesto 'An End to Evil: How to Win the War On Terror'. Here is a particularly shocking and similarly hilarious look at some of the key themes and extracts that purvey this bizarre insight into the mindset of the current political ideologues who?s backward and shamefully weak analyse is possibly more offensive than other, more sophisticated, machiavellian, tyrannies that humanity has endured in recent history...from what i've read of it so far it doesn?t even appear to have the transparent guise of intellectualism or method that kagan?s paradise and power has...

"Let's begin with the neocon vision for America. As to be expected, F & P -- as I'll call them from hereupon, for the sake of brevity -- envision an authoritarian America, a nation of "zero tolerance" toward foreigners, outsiders, and those who do not embrace the predominant culture.

"For instance, victimless crime begets larger, more serious crime. "We ought to learn a lesson from the most effective anticrime program the United States has ever seen: Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's crack down in New York," the pair write:

'Giuliani's core insight was this: People who break one law will break other laws. You want to catch a guy who's skipped out on a manslaughter arrest warrant? Stop every turnstile jumper and inspect his ID. You want to find the killer who left his fingerprints on a knife that stabbed a kid to death yesterday? Scan the fingerprints of everybody you catch smoking marijuana in the park today' (!)

"Notice how effortlessly F & P associate marijuana use with murder -- not simply garden-variety murder but rather heinous child murder. The assumption here is that people who smoke pot are more than likely guilty of other, far more serious crimes...

"Of course, F & P are not really interested in pot smokers, that is unless they are from Iran or Somalia. It's mostly Arabs, Afghans, Iranians, and Northern Africans the Bushites want to kick around.

In addition to Arabs, Muslims, and Africans with visas, the neocon duo believe antiwar demonstrators are dangerous. In fact, if I read these guys correctly, the First Amendment itself is dangerous:

'We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion'

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F & P want to continue this legacy. Instead of going after "reds" like one of Ashcroft's predecessors, A. Mitchell Palmer (AG under Woodrow Wilson), they want the government to go after "terrorists," that is anybody who disagrees with them on US foreign policy.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. Especially those on the Left...'

The rest of the article can be found here at counterpunch

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