New Group Boasts Big War Chest and Rising Voice - New York Times

Re: New Group Boasts Big War Chest and Rising Voice - New York Times:

“If Hitler’s warnings were heeded when he wrote ‘Mein Kampf,’ he could have been stopped,” said Bradley Blakeman, 49, the president of Freedom’s Watch and a former deputy assistant to Mr. Bush. “Ahmadinejad is giving all the same kind of warning signs to us, and the region — he wants the destruction of the United States and the destruction of Israel.”

To that would have required merely the “inconvenience” of violating Germany's sovereignty to kill someoe for his writings.  There being a big difference between speech and action.  Only once the speech is put into action is there action to be taken.  And only when that mounts to a level of national threat does it allow the threatened country to intervene.

That is, unless you are violating American treaties and laws of war and are no longer a member of the U.N. or the civilized nations of Earth, as these wackos apparently suggest.

“Ideologically, we are inspired by much of Ronald Reagan’s thinking — peace through strength, protect and defend America, and prosperity through free enterprise,” Mr. Fleischer said.

To establish your “conservative” credentials, you have to first pay homage to Reagan.  To interpret this doublespeak given the reactionary neoconservative worldview as shown with Iraq, etc, they are saying: peace through bombing & torture, protect & defend by spying on Americans in violation of the Constitution and attacking other countries irrespective of their national sovereignty, and satisfying greed through redirecting government to support cronies.

For years, the group’s founders [a dozen wealthy conservatives] lamented MoveOn’s growing influence, derived in large part from its grass-roots efforts, especially on the debate about the Iraq war. “A bunch of us activists kept watching MoveOn and its attacks on the war, and it just got to be obnoxious,” said Mr. Sembler, a friend of Vice President Dick Cheney. “We decided we needed to do something about this, because the conservative side was not responding.”

In conservative circles these days “grassroots” apparently means a dozen multi-millionaires.

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