the problems isn't R vs D, it's neo-conservative/liberal vs good old-fashioned values. Lou Dobb is a breath of fresh air in this cancer-ridden circus.
The fact that the biggest neo-cons out there were big-time Liberals should make people stop and think about the Neo cancer eating away at both parties.
Richard Perle is still a Democrat and so are half the people at the American Enterprise Institute, the parent organization of PNAC. The DLC is in bed with PNAC up to its neck to the point of having signed PNAC documents.
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"It's Time to Get Over It"
Kerry Tells Anti-War Movement to Move On
By MARK HAND
The DLC is following the footsteps of its neo-conservative,
war-mongering predecessor organizations of the 1970s: the
Coalition
for a Democratic Majority (CDM), founded in 1972 by the likes of
Richard Perle, Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, and
Jeane Kirkpatrick, among others; the
Committee on the Present Danger
(CPD), founded in 1976 by Richard Perle, Midge Decter, Norman
Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, and Jeane Kirkpatrick, et al; and the
Committee for the Free World (CFW), founded in 1981 by exactly the
same crew.
Rounding out the picture, CFW's chairman was Donald
Rumsfeld.The "missing link" between the "Democratic" DLC and the now-
"Republican" CDM/CPD/CFW neo-cons, is the Social Democrats-USA,
(SDUSA), whose chairman, Penn Kemble, was the Executive Director of
the Coalition for a Democratic Majority in 1972, until he brought in
Richard Perle's underling Stephen Bryen to take his place. Bryen, who
created the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) in
the early 1980s, when he served as Perle's aide at the Department of
Defense, is another leading member of the neo-conservative gang that
wants to go to war against the entire Arab world in the name of
anti-terrorism. Providing daily coordination between Perle and Bryen
would be Joshua Muravchik, a fixture at nearly every American
Enterprise Institute event--but also a leader of SDUSA since its
creation.
The DLC and SDUSA both maintain extremely close links to Tony Blair's
British "New Labour" party faction, and in parallel, are out to
recreate a new version of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority in
time for the 2004 elections. The battle cry for this effort is to
follow the "strong defense" lead of the original CDM's heroes: the
late Dem Senators Henry "Scoop" Jackson, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
The CDM's two leading lights in Congress were the Democratic Senators
Jackson and Moynihan. The Cold Warrior and fanatically pro-Israel
Jackson remains the model for the DLC crowd today. Former DLC
president Joe Lieberman declares he is proud to be identified as a
"'Scoop' Jackson Democrat." It was these two Senators' offices that
housed the Straussians behind the no-exit Iraq War.
From Jackson's staff came:
* Paul Wolfowitz, now Deputy Secretary of Defense and a leading
Straussian chicken-hawk;
* Richard Perle (on Jackson's staff from 1969 until going into the
Defense Department in 1981), and until his recent forced resignation,
chairman of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board. It is reported that Perle
maintains Democratic Party membership to this day, out of fealty to
Scoop. Perle later brought along Doug Feith, now Rumsfeld's
Undersecretary for Policy, who has been a Perle "groupie" since the
late 1970s, largely due to Feith's family background deep in the
terrorist movement founded by Zionist fascist Vladimir Jabotinsky. In
the 1980s, Feith financed Perle through the International Advisers
Inc., a firm in which Feith was the only stockholder;
*Frank Gaffney, who heads the Center for Security Policy, a "private"
neo-con group which cheerleads for imperial wars and brutally
anti-Palestinian policies;
From Moynihan's office came:
* Elliott Abrams, an Iran/Contra convict who now tries to shape
Administration Middle East policy from the National Security Council
staff;
* Abram Shulsky, who heads the Office of Special Plans under Feith in
the Pentagon, which concocted fraudulent intelligence estimates used
by the Administration to justify the Iraq War;
* Gary Schmitt, the head of the empire-promoting PNAC and a close
collaborator of Shulsky. Schmitt worked under Roy Godson of the
National Strategy Information Center in the early 1980s. Godson was
active in the CDM in the 1970s, narrowly escaped prosecution in the
Iran-Contra scandals of the 1980s, and now is a consultant to Feith
and Shulsky's Office of Special Plans.
Other leaders in the CDM were:
* Stephen Bryen, who became Executive Director of CDM and then of
JINSA, after being kicked off the staff of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee for passing classified Pentagon documents to
Israeli officials.
* Penn Kemble, the first Executive Director of CDM, who paved the way
for Bryen to take the job over, later chairman of SDUSA.
In 1999, Norman Podhoretz, known as the "father" of neo-conservatism,
wrote that the CDM was created to destroy the policies of 1972 Dem
nominee George McGovern in the Democratic Party, especially because of
McGovern's opposition to the Vietnam War. Podhoretz even admitted that
the CDM was a flop that "never got off the ground." But in the
mid-80s, the DLC certainly did get off the ground, and controls the
Democratic Party today.
{Issues.527.62}: Tom Paine {nasrudin11f} Mon, 05 Apr 2004 13:51:48 CDT
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Kerry's version of PNAC:
February 18, 2004
"It's Time to Get Over It"
Kerry Tells Anti-War Movement to Move On
By MARK HAND
Researchers and investigative reporters are fascinated with the neoconservatives, that group of American empire peddlers who turned George W. Bush into a junkie war criminal. A similar group, the New Democrats, has been pushing its own dangerous brand of U.S. hegemony but with much less fanfare.
The leading mouthpiece for the New Democrats' radical interventionist program could be our next president. John Kerry, the frontrunner in the quest for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, has been promoting a foreign policy perspective called "progressive internationalism." It's a concept concocted by establishment Democrats seeking to convince potential backers in the corporate and political world that, if installed in the White House, they would seek to preserve U.S. power and influence around the world, but in a kinder, gentler fashion than the current administration.
In the battle to control the American empire, the neocons have in their corner the Project for a New American Century while the New Democrats have the
Progressive Policy Institute. Come November, who will get your vote? Coke or Pepsi?
In fall 2000, PNAC released
Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century. It's a blueprint for "maintaining global U.S. preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests."
In fall 2003, members of PPI joined with other tough-minded Democrats to unveil
Progressive Internationalism: A Democratic National Security Strategy, a 19-page manifesto that calls for "the bold exercise of American power, not to dominate but to shape alliances and international institutions that share a common commitment to liberal values."
The rest of this excellent work with its supporting documentation can be found here: http://www.counterpunch.org/hand02182004.html
The war in Iraq has been bogus from the start and SHAME to any Republican or Democrat who in anyway supported, shilled for or excused this war.
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