M.J. Rosenberg: Joe Klein Won't Back Down -- Keeps Hitting Those Neocons!

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Joe Klein Won't Back Down -- Keeps Hitting Those Neocons!
By M.J. Rosenberg

Everybody predicted that TIME's Joe Klein would have to publish a major mea culpa after writing that the neocons played a major role in getting us into the Iraq war.

But he's not doing it. He is not allowing ridiculous charges of anti-semitism to stop him from saying what everybody knows: that although the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld crowd led the charge for war, they were supported and buttressed by neocons in the administration, on the Hill and the media.

This is a narrative some very powerful people do not like. They claim to fear that, because most of the neocons are Jews, Americans will conclude that the war on Iraq was pushed by the Jewish community.

Of course, that is not so. Although most neocons are Jews, few Jews are neocons. Every poll taken of Jewish opinion shows that, after African-Americans and non-Cuban Latinos, Jews have been the segment of the population most strongly opposed to military action against Iraq and Iran. This is no big surprise considering that 80% of Jews are Democrats, and the same percentages supported Gore, Kerry and will, no doubt, support Obama.

But the neocons aren't worried about the Jews. They are worried that any focus on the campaign they waged for war with Iraq will (as it should) utterly discredit them.

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