Presenting the other side

I have another email conversation that I am shaping up to be a long speech or rant on the lies that got us into war.

Before I finish it I will give the link here to the argument you will hear from the other side.

"There is something surreal about the charges flying that President Bush lied when he claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction..." followed by evidence he presents that a great many people believed he had weapons of mass destruction.

From his position very close to the center this will be the neocon line. You can also see the current line now being played in his April column - "enormous efforts should also go into documenting and publicizing the brutal nature of the Saddam Hussein regime in all its horrifying detail." I am trying to find if someone has written an essay in opposition to his argument that arguing against weapons of mass destruction is surreal because of all the evidence he presents. I have most of the counter-evidence scattered about in my thousands of links in this blog.

So who the Hell is Robert Kagan and why is he at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace? Jim Lobe answers part of that question in All in the Neocon Family. Kagan is part of the inner circle of the Neocon family, of which the center is actually closely connected with kindred bonds.

Who are the neocons and what is their agenda? Here is a very brief recent summary of articles. Or here is a longer recent article.

The Carnegie is an ecosystem of influential policy makers of many stripes and they are having their own debates about the neo-con agenda.