IPS Inter Press Service - Neo-Cons

The Neo-Conservative Ascendancy in the Bush Administration

POLITICS-US: An Ocean Apart, Bush, McCain Play to Neo-Con Dreams - (Found July 2, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, May 15 (IPS) - In separate speeches delivered an ocean apart, the two standard bearers of the Republican Party Thursday offered rosy visions of a future designed to gladden the hearts of Israel-centred neo-conservatives without offering any details about how their dreams will be achieved.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42392

POLITICS-US: Bush Comments Rally Dems Behind Obama - (Found July 2, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, May 16 (IPS) - U.S. President George W. Bush's comments in Israel Thursday ignited a political campaign row back home as Democratic leaders decried his comparison of engaging enemies to Nazi appeasement.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42396

POLITICS-US: On Middle East, McCain Vows to Stay the Course - (Found July 2, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 2 (IPS) - In a major address on Middle East policy Monday, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, pledged to maintain the Bush administration&39;s hard line against Iran and expressed strong scepticism about the ability of the current Palestinian leadership to reach a peace accord with Israel.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42628

POLITICS-US: A League of Their Own - (Found July 2, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 10 (IPS) - A radical foreign policy idea put forth by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has drawn cheers of support from sources as varied as his campaign's neo-conservative backers to liberal internationalists from the camp of his rival, Sen. Barack Obama. But the idea is not without some surprising detractors.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42729

POLITICS-US: Hawks Belie Iran&39;s "Existential Threat" to Israel - (Found July 2, 2008 )

WASHINGTON, Jun 30 (IPS) - New arguments by analysts close to Israeli thinking in favour of U.S. strikes against Iran cite evidence of Iranian military weakness in relation to the U.S. and Israel and even raise doubts that Iran is rushing to obtain such weapons at all.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43015