The 12 Suggested Steps of Neocons Anonymous

1.        We admitted we were powerless over the globe--that Iraq had become unmanageable.

2.        Came to believe that a process more honest than ourselves could restore us to democracy.

3.        Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the Law as it limits and contains us.

4.        Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5.        Admitted to the press, to the people of Iraq and to the people of the world the exact nature of our wrongs.

6.        Were entirely ready to have the voters remove all the defectives in our government.

7.        Humbly asked the Treasury to remove our payroll.

8.        Made a list of all persons we had harmed, (several volumes in length) and became willing to make amends to them all.

9.        Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10.        Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11.        Sought through reading, listening and asking to improve our conscious contact with reality, as we try to comprehend it, praying only for knowledge of the people's will for us and the democracy to carry that out.

12.        Having had a moral awakening as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to neocons, to help them heal and to practice new principles of justice and humility in all our affairs.