President Bush's agenda, this New American Foreign Policy is not hidden, per se. Its my feeling that the full repercussions of the policy are lost on the general American public.

Using our invasion of Iraq as blueprint for democratizing the middle east is implicit in the document the White House uses to outline US foreign policy (the name of which document escapes me at the moment but I'll tryto edit in a link when I find it)...

I'm all for forwarding the agenda of democracy throughout the world...but not at the barrel of a gun.

Three highly esteemed, right of center advisors to the President advised against military action right up to the moment the bombs fell in Baghdad. Two of them were wearing at least four stars (how unamerican of them )

My ears would have been canted in that direction instead of in the direction of the Rumsfield's and the Wolfowitz's.

The conspiratorial part I am referencing is where this conversation gets tricky for me. I outlined the gist of it above and I think I'll leave it that, except to say that George Bush is a man driven by his faith in Christianity. Not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself but in the context of military action in the Middle East this sounds like a very, very bad combination for peace in today's post 9/11 world.

Thanks for not going off the handle on me there, herm. I knew you had important stuff to add to this conversation...