WMDs in Iraq

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4169107.stm
Looks like USA has finally given up the chase for WMDs and concluded that there were none....
So much for buried planes in the sand and whatever else people was posting about here.

[Scrivener]

I thought there were WMD there... Can't believe even Colin Powell was tricked.

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I thought there were WMD there... Can't believe even Colin Powell was tricked.
Yes, must've been a real shock

[Scrivener]

Well, I trusted him more than that faction headed by Rumsfeld and Cheney made up of half ex-Nixon staffers and half converted Communists. (Now there's a match made in heaven.) Still I guess he believes in that whole "good soldier" routine - Samurai spirit, commit suicide if your lord commands it.

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Well, I trusted him more than that faction headed by Rumsfeld and Cheney made up of half ex-Nixon staffers and half converted Communists. (Now there's a match made in heaven.) Still I guess he believes in that whole "good soldier" routine - Samurai spirit, commit suicide if your lord commands it.
Half converted communists? Now there's something I haven't heard before, please tell me more.

Edit: Rhyme was not intended

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Well the origins of the neo-con group are in the "New Left" from the 1950s.

You can read about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism_(United_States )

Origins of the term "neo-conservative":

The term was coined by socialist Michael Harrington, who wanted a way to characterize former leftists who had moved significantly to the right – people he had been deriding as "socialists for Nixon."
Some of today's most famous neocons are from Eastern European Jewish immigrant families, who were frequently on the edge of poverty. The Great Depression radicalized many immigrants, and introduced them to the new and revolutionary ideas of socialism and communism. The Soviet Union's break with Stalinism in the 1950's led to the rise of the so-called New Left in America, which popularized anti-Sovietism along with anti-capitalism. The New Left became very popular among the children of hardline Communist families.
It might be simplistic to call them ex-communists but to me they have a similar attitude in terms of being revolutionaries following a radical agenda "by any means necessary".