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Originally Posted by LibertyandJusticeforAll
One thing your forgetting if Bush made his cabinet and appionted those people and or even if he didn't know who he was picking someone was helping him make this neocon choices :-) I think once Bush heard all day the neocon idealogy his speeches changed to be what he really believed.
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To the extent Bush himself chose his own cabinet is debatable. (chuckling)
Many of the neoconservative types that comprised much of the Bush administration have been around for many years and some have even managed to endure as far back in the administrations of Carter, Reagan, and Clinton as well.
Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Douglas Feith, William Luti, Abram Shulsky, James Woolsey, Scooter Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, and Newt Gingrich.
I would assert that this group listed with the exception of Wolfowitz, and maybe Perle, were not among the original intellectual neoconservatives whom I would consider Straussians, but were instead were more closely married to the "Liberals with guns" theme which Podhertz and Kristol later cheered for in their oft repeated op eds.
It is a little amusing however that the term "neocon" is used by many on the left in the same manner as "tea baggers", yet little do they realize that the current administration saturated with neoconservative minded members, even if they aren't as vocal as the previous administration.
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