John Pilger: Bush Or Kerry? :

"Shortly before Bush's 'election' in 2000, the Project for the New American Century, the neoconservative pressure group, published an ideological blueprint for 'maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests'. Every one of its recommendations for aggression and conquest was adopted by the administration.

One year later, the Progressive Policy Institute, an arm of the Democratic Leadership Council, published a 19-page manifesto for the 'New Democrats', who include all the principal Democratic Party candidates, and especially John Kerry. This called for 'the bold exercise of American power' at the heart of 'a new Democratic strategy, grounded in the party's tradition of muscular internationalism'. Such a strategy would 'keep Americans safer than the Republicans' go-it-alone policy, which has alienated our natural allies and overstretched our resources. We aim to rebuild the moral foundation of US global leadership ...' "