Digby has a revealing post with information about the gang coming up.
Something to look forward to.
Read the whole post, but here's a couple of quotes in it from Josh Marshall back in the day, the last one from a Digby commenter:
In the minds of these second-tier appointees, taking out Saddam Hussein is only part of a larger puzzle....As a plan to pursue in the real world, most of the career military and the civilian employees at the Pentagon -- indeed most establishment foreign policy experts -- see this vision as little short of insane. But to Bush's hawkish Pentagon appointees the real prize isn't Baghdad, it's Riyadh. And the Saudis know it.
In the spring of 2001, shortly after the Bush administration had taken office, a delegation of Saudi diplomats attended a meeting at the Pentagon with Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz. As the meeting was breaking up, one of the attendees, Harold Rhode ... approached Adel Al-Jubeir, a soft-spoken Saudi diplomat who once served as an assistant to the Saudi ambassador and today is foreign policy advisor to Crown Prince Abdullah.
Rhode told Al-Jubeir that once the new administration got its affairs in order ... [t]he United States would take care of Saddam, start calling the shots in the region, and the Saudis would have to fall in line. Al-Jubeir demurred.... Rhode then shoved his finger in the diminutive Saudi's chest and told him, "You're not going to have any choice!"
Rhode told Al-Jubeir that once the new administration got its affairs in order ... [t]he United States would take care of Saddam, start calling the shots in the region, and the Saudis would have to fall in line. Al-Jubeir demurred.... Rhode then shoved his finger in the diminutive Saudi's chest and told him, "You're not going to have any choice!"
Something tells me that was not only bad mannered, but probably damned stupid, as well.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
