My assertion did not exceed Walt's. You only have to survey the prominent Neocons to understand that they are more than supportive of Israel. They are Likudniks and that would include both the Jewish and nonJewish Neocons, the latter including Woosley and John Bolton, AIPAC's favorite standby. You can survey the actors behind the scenes pushing the Bush administration, a willing participant, toward war on Iraq.

Walt also notes the fakery about the Neocon project to spread democracy by whatever means, especially American military power, because of their current attacks on Turkey, a secular demoracy and member of NATO, in fact.

I support Walt's view over your because he is a Middle East expert and highly learned, and I know a lot of his references and sources, over your own view. It is pretty weak if not trivial to bring up some notion about a Neocon giving Saddam chemical weapons, in counterarguing his view.

But this give and take has gone on long enough.