Good Riddance

The neo-conservative dream faded in 2006.

The ambitions proclaimed when the neo-cons' mission statement "The Project for the New American Century" was declared in 1997 have turned into disappointment and recriminations as the crisis in Iraq has grown.

"The Project for the New American Century" has been reduced to a voice-mail box and a ghostly website. A single employee has been left to wrap
things up.

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Among the signatories were many of the senior officials who would later determine policy under President George W Bush - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams and Lewis Libby - as well as thinkers including Francis Fukuyama, Norman Podheretz and Frank Gaffney. The neo-conservatives were called that because they sought to re-establish what they felt were true conservative values in the Republican Party and the United States.

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They saw the war in Iraq as their big chance of showing how the "New American Century" might work.

I will not miss you PNAC. I remember the good ole days when talking about PNAC was seen as spouting conspiracies. It was amazing that a website with documents that laid out the plan for attacking Iraq, signed by some of the same people running our country, open for anyone to see could have been seen as such a controversial topic of discussion once upon a time. Well, now they seem to be disbursing and heading underground. I am sure that the neocons are not gone. They will surely pop up in the future with a new website and new plans under a different name. They will keep it low until the Iraq fiasco dies down. They will rely on the short American attention span and memory. Ah, yes, they will be back. And hopefully we will remember and not let them repeat this mess.