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Jeff
December 23rd, 2006, 06:37 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6189793.stm

The neo-conservative dream faded in 2006.

The ambitions proclaimed when the neo-cons' mission statement "The Project for the New American Century" was declared in 1997 have turned into disappointment and recriminations as the crisis in Iraq has grown.

"The Project for the New American Century" has been reduced to a voice-mail box and a ghostly website. A single employee has been left to wrap things up.

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Lindsey
December 24th, 2006, 12:33 AM
"The Project for the New American Century" has been reduced to a voice-mail box and a ghostly website. A single employee has been left to wrap things up.
Who will tell the President?

--Lindsey
Jeff
December 24th, 2006, 01:08 PM
Who will tell the President?

--Lindsey

Tony Blair?<choke>

- Jeff
Lindsey
December 28th, 2006, 12:29 AM
Tony Blair?<choke>
LOL!!

I had great hopes early on (before March of 2003) that Tony Blair would be a moderating influence on George Bush, that he'd be able to restrain him from running us all off a cliff. Instead it seems to have worked the other way around. :(

--Lindsey
Mike
December 29th, 2006, 12:32 AM
I had great hopes early on (before March of 2003) that Tony Blair would be a moderating influence on George Bush...
From Keith Bostic's /nev/dull mailing list:
It was announced in England that Tony Blair will leave as British Prime Minister in May. So, President Bush has toppled yet another government.
-- Jay Leno
ndebord
December 29th, 2006, 01:27 PM
From Keith Bostic's /nev/dull mailing list:
It was announced in England that Tony Blair will leave as British Prime Minister in May. So, President Bush has toppled yet another government.
-- Jay Leno

Mike,

Well toppling two out of three was a good thing (Spain and Italy). Blair, by moving center right with Labor, may have succeeded in stealing the Tory's issues in GB, but at what cost? The soul of his party perhaps and so it might be said that GWB was a huge success, with a 75% success ration in toppling governments (I don't coutn afghanistan as a country, rather a patchwork of ethnic tribes that hate each other.)
Lindsey
December 30th, 2006, 12:13 AM
From Keith Bostic's /nev/dull mailing list:
It was announced in England that Tony Blair will leave as British Prime Minister in May. So, President Bush has toppled yet another government.
-- Jay Leno
There's as much truth as humor, there... <sigh>

--Lindsey