Moyers on the Neocons and William Kristol

Moyers on the Neocons and William Kristol

By: John Amato @ 4:45 PM - PDT

I
often call Bill Kristol–"William the Bloody," a vampire character from Buffy because he's a first degree warmonger who seems to love death and destruction. These bastards sold the Iraq war to the public every minute of everyday regardless of the consequences. In Kristol's case—he is one of the worst. Moyers outlined what PNAC is and their obsession with Iraq.
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BILL MOYERS: No one got more air time from an arm chair than Bill Kristol, editor of THE WEEKLY STANDARD And a media savvy Republican strategist. In the 1990s Kristol organized a campaign for increased military spending and a muscular foreign policy. In 1998 he and his allies wrote President Bill Clinton urging him 'to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
And now, just days after 9/11 with many of their allies serving in the administration, they wrote an open letter to President Bush calling for regime change in bagdad. Over the coming months Kristol's Weekly Standard kept up the drum beat.

And what does he get for his dead wrong
assertions? A new column in TIME magazine. When you see the carnage this war has caused you understand why I write about them the way I do. (full transcript below the fold)

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