Paranoia

With Bush and the Neocons, Paranoia may be the only rational response.

UPDATE: Critique and response.

From the comments, WB says:

This story names only one name in an official position: "assistant secretary of state for European affairs under the Clinton administration and undersecretary of state for political affairs".

So why do you have Bush and NeoCons in your one-line post?

The post I linked to mentions no names, but it does have four secondary links, which I will call A, B, C, and D in order of their appearance. Secondary link B links to a tertiary link, and quotes from it. No names appear in the tertiary link quote either, but it did reference an unnamed high official. Following that, secondary link B claims that the official in question is Marc Grossman, a Clinton appointee. It goes on to mention a number of other officials allegedly involved or on the fringes: Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, Richard Perle, and Eric Edelman, all of whom are former very high Bush administration names. I can't verify any of these particular charges, but I stick by my characterization of the Bushies as justified paranoia inducing.

Secondary link C contains a reference to the part played by George W. Bush.

Are the Clintons part of the vast right wing conspiracy too?

A few years back I would have said no, but now that Bill and Richard Mellon Scaife are BFBs, who can say? Hillary and Murdoch seem pretty tight also.

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