Neocons revive Cold War Group - CPD

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http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=3075

Neocons Revive Cold War Group

by Jim Lobe
A bipartisan group of 41 mainly neoconservative foreign-policy hawks has launched the third Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) whose previous two incarnations mobilized public support for rolling back Soviet-led communism but whose new enemy will be "global terrorism."

The new group, announced at a Capitol Hill press conference Tuesday, said its "single mission" will be to "advocate policies intended to win the war on global terrorism – terrorism carried out by radical Islamists opposed to freedom and democracy."

"The committee intends to remain active until the present danger is no longer a threat, however long that takes," said CPD chairman R. James Woolsey, who served briefly as former President Bill Clinton's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director and has often referred to the battle against radical Islam as "World War IV."

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The two senators also claimed that the new CPD consists of "citizens of diverse political persuasions," although the vast majority of the 41 members are well-known neoconservatives who have strongly helped lead the drive to war in Iraq and have long supported broadening President George W. Bush's "war on terrorism" to include Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, as well.

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[On the Road]

1. You Have GOT to be Kidding!

That group almost caused a nuclear exchange with the Soviets. James Schlessinger, Carter's Secretary of Defense, would stand up in Cabinet meetings and go "The enemy is mobilizing! They are about to attack!" until Carter fired him.

They were also compeletely discredited after Gorbachev started unilaterally disarming. But it is the same mindset that's so popular today.

[cprise]

2. Otherwise known as the "Saudi Butt-Kissing Group"

[realFedUp]

3. Wonder if this group is taxpayer subsidized?

or has any authority beyond spreading propoganda?