BUSH44?

If you've been reading my ongoing blog 'Wolves in the Fold', you've seen me lay the groundwork for my ultimate thesis - that the administration of George W. Bush is nothing but a leisure service of a vast multinational company called The Carlyle Group, and the neocon flagbearing group Project for a New American Century.

This should scare the living shit out of you. Really. I'm not kidding. When you understand the true goals of both Carlyle and PNAC, you begin to see a fascist network forming that would make the Third Reich look like a freshman PolySci project.

So, why should we be concerned, if Bush43 will be out of office in only twelve months?

It appears that at least three of the GOP frontrunners for his office are already in the back pockets of the Carlyle/PNAC cabal. In other words, should any of them win the presidency, the disastrous last eight years will continue as business as usual.

Just to recap, here are the major accomplishments of Bush43's Carlyle Group/PNAC-driven presidency: (thanks and a tip of the hat to the contributors at www.democrats.com

- Over 3000 American soldiers dead
- More than 18,250 soldiers wounded and maimed
- Over 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians killed
- Over 350 billion dollars spent on an war of lies
- Two deeply divided countries; The U.S. and Iraq
- NSA warrantless, illegal spying on U.S. citizens
- Massive data mining of phone and bank records of U.S. citizens
- Congressional corruption at an unprecedented level (see Tom Delay, et al.)
- Despicable torture of detainee suspects
- A president firmly entrenched above the law (See Bush's end-around on the FISA law)
- Emasculation of Congress as a co-equal branch of government (see Bush's 750 signing statements)
- Suppression of civil liberties, invasion of privacy & free speech
- Two stolen elections and massive voter fraud
- The Katrina response debacle
-Ignoring overwhelming evidence from the scientific community that global warming is occurring and it’s not a natural phenomenon.
-Suppression of science and flow of information in order to fit a narrow brand of arcane Christian canon.
-Infiltration of the religious right’s dogmatic agenda into our secular government.
-Refusal to fund and acknowledge the benefits of stem cell research.
-An 8.1 trillion dollar debt, mostly to the Chinese.
-Medicare’s Plan D Prescription drug program that masquerades as a massive windfall for pharmaceutical companies.
-A President who claimed ‘God told him’ to invade Iraq and attack (that wasn't God, it was PNAC!).
- Finally, the re-birth of fascism, American style!

We won't even mention that the United States is now a worldwide pariah, hated or simply an object of disgust from Beijing to British Columbia.

As I mentioned, it appears that at least three GOP candidates to replace Bush43 have very strong Carlyle or PNAC connections.

John McCain, of course, was the president of the New Citizenship Project, which was the parent organization of PNAC. He has been the most vocal supporter of Bush43's Iraq policies among the GOP front-runners, and those policies were - after all - just the political realization of PNAC's goals.

Rudy Giuliani hired Norman Podhoretz as his senior foreign policy advisor. Podhoretz is a signatory to the original PNAC manifesto, and Elliot Abrams' father-in-law. Elliot Abrams is also heavily involved in PNAC's activities, and is Bush43's deputy national security advisor. Is this getting just a little too incestuous, or what? Podhoretz was appointed to his position with Giuliani's campaign in July. In September, he was reported to have met secretly with Bush43 and Karl Rove, during which he reportedly encouraged them to bomb Iran. Considered one of the most ardent of the neocons, his involvement with Giuliani almost guarantees that a Giuliani presidency would keep the Oval Office in the hands of PNAC and the Carlyle Group.

Mitt Romney hired Vin Weber as his Campaign Policy Chairman. Vin Weber, a former congressman from Minnesota, is the managing partner of Clark and Weinstock's Washington DC office. Clark and Weinstock, as I will mention in 'Wolves in the Fold' is the lobbying firm for The Carlyle Group. In addition, Vin Weber was one of the original signatories to the PNAC manifesto, and signed the letter sent to President Clinton in 1998 urging him to invade Iraq. Clearly, Mitt Romney enjoys the close, warm embrace of both PNAC and The Carlyle Group and, that being the case, a Romney presidency would simply continue the disastrous policies implemented by Bush43.

Fred Thompson's link to PNAC is - admittedly - tenuous at best. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (as is McCain and, for that matter, former Democratic candidate Christopher Dodd, and President Clinton). The CFR has been linked by conspiracy buffs for some time with PNAC due to some shared members. In addition, there are individuals who share involvement with the CFR and the Carlyle Group (billionaire George Soros, for instance). At this point, however, it is probably a safe bet that neither Carlyle or PNAC have their claws in Thompson, primarily because neither of them is very interested in backing someone that slow and error-prone. Besides that, his wife is generally regarded by his campaign workers as a harpy.

Likewise, Ron Paul is definitely NOT likely to be PNAC/Carlyle bait. In fact, because of his strident position against the Iraq invasion, he is the anti-PNAC candidate. He is also about as likely to be elected as Elmer Fudd.

Not that I'm into endorsing Republican candidates (believe me, I'm really not!), but it appears that the only legitimate GOP frontrunner not infected with the PNAC/Carlyle virus is former Arkansas governor and Iowa Caucus Winner Mike Huckabee. While I find his position on civil liberties, abortion, and separation of church and state absolutely deplorable - I do believe that he would endorse a theocracy if given the opportunity - he at least doesn't appear to be a puppet of the neocons. Sadly, his campaign is scheduled to hit the wall and burn to a crisp in New Hampshire and after MegaSuperDuper Tuesday.

All of which means that the Republican candidate for president in 2008 will almost certainly be a PNAC/Carlyle Group crony. That makes it imperative to get behind whatever lame-assed, pantywaist Democrat that makes it through the mud and mire of the primaries, and back him or her all the way to the White House.

The alternative is unthinkable. Another four years of PNAC/Carlyle Group disasters will grind this country right down to the spokes.