Neoconned!!

If you google this word, the first page there is this one:

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr071003.htm

I am sure everyone here has seen this but thought it worth posting again as I am still amazed at how hilarious it is that Dr. Paul stands up amongst a den of liars and weaklings and delivers this speech, from 2003.

This is part of the list he spoke of as the definition of a neoconservative:

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They agree with Trotsky on permanent revolution, violent as well as intellectual.

They are for redrawing the map of the Middle East and are willing to use force to do so.

They believe in preemptive war to achieve desired ends.

They accept the notion that the ends justify the means—that hardball politics is a moral necessity.

They express no opposition to the welfare state.

They are not bashful about an American empire; instead they strongly endorse it.

They believe lying is necessary for the state to survive.

They believe a powerful federal government is a benefit.

They believe pertinent facts about how a society should be run should be held by the elite and withheld from those who do not have the courage to deal with it.

They believe neutrality in foreign affairs is ill advised.

They hold Leo Strauss in high esteem.

They believe imperialism, if progressive in nature, is appropriate.
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