Eric Alterman spells it out if you still have doubts about the end game...

[carpe diem]

How to lose a country in seven easy steps...

Point one: The Bush administration is, as this piece in today’s Washington Post puts it, working to “consolidate influence in a small circle of Republicans and to marginalize dissenting voices that would try to impede a conservative agenda.” 
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Point Two: They are doing so with a historically unprecedented, at least in this country, degree of secrecy, and therefore lack of accountability. 
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Point Three:  These same people, acting with unprecedented centralization of power, and secrecy, have taken it upon themselves to suspend the most basic rights enumerated in our constitution, and are carrying out the functional equivalent of a police state on Guantanamo Bay, and at various prisons around the world.  It is a police state in which torture is condoned and prisoners are, on occasion, murdered.  According to Amnesty International, the United States is operating a “gulag” that “has sought to justify the use of coercive interrogation techniques, the practice of holding 'ghost detainees' (people in unacknowledged incommunicado detention) and the 'rendering' or handing over of prisoners to third countries known to practice torture,” 
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Point Four:  While they pay rhetorical tribute to “democracy,” they side with tyrants whenever convenient. 
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The entire article is here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

[Coexist]

1. great stuff

[PATRICK]

2. I would argue with point four

Such people prefer people of their own stripe and club membership. Therefore they will not long tolerate democracy or honest men anywhere if there is something to be gained from that country. In fact, an "honest" man trying to give them everything they want is setting up his nation and himself for a fall. Neutral nations must be undesirable or too distant and too much immediate unnecessary trouble.

The installation of voting technology world wide is just one glaring, largely unopposed method of destroying democracy worldwide. It is ALL about tyranny.

Unfortunately this was obvious years ago but merely a question how far they would get. History was hijacked in 2000. Now the world is hitting the towers of its own civilization.

[getmeouttahere]

3. Great stuff....the point about paying rhetorical tribute...

to democracy needs to be expanded...it isn't democracy these people are interested in, but unfettered capitalism. From Allende in Chile in '73, to Chavez in Venezuela today, our government cares nothing about democracy if it gets in the way of "corporatocracy"

www.handsoffvenezuela.org