NV neocon/world's 6 thrichest man funded ads supporting Iran invasion

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Wonder how he's feeling today? Crying with Cheney? No wonder they started this effort. They knew the NEI report was coming out.

Sheldon Adelson: Powerful in Vegas, hawkish toward Iran

By J. Patrick Coolican, Las Vegas Sun

Published in the Sun on Oct. 7, 2007

Sheldon Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is among a group of conservatives embarked on an effort to influence U.S. policy toward Iran, including the possibility of military action.

Adelson, who according to Forbes magazine is the world’s sixth-richest man, has been a major contributor to Freedom’s Watch, a conservative advocacy group formed to counteract resurgent American liberalism, and particularly MoveOn.org.

Freedom’s Watch was established with the help of Las Vegas image maven Sig Rogich, a Sands consultant, and its five board members include Sands President William Weidner.

The group’s first public action was to air $15 million in ads last summer in tossup congressional districts urging that America stay in Iraq until victory is achieved. Now the group is shifting its focus to Iran, which has nuclear intentions and which the State Department calls a state sponsor of terrorism.

Freedom’s Watch is sponsoring a colloquy this month at which 20 experts will argue for a more assertive policy toward Iran, including a military option. Among those attending will be scholars from the American Enterprise Institute, which has close ties to the Bush administration and has long been the outpost of neoconservatives who advocated war with Iraq before turning their attention to Iran.

“Freedom’s Watch believes Iran poses a significant threat to the United States, which is why we’ve assembled a forum to discuss the issues and the threat,” spokesman Matt David said. He emphasized the group has taken no official position on a war.

The group ran a full-page advertisement in The New York Times last month that condemned Columbia University for inviting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak. The Iranian president “threatens our nation and the freedoms we value,” the ad read. “He has supported attacks on our soldiers and our allies. He should be treated as the terrorist that he is.”

Bradley Blakeman, the president of Freedom’s Watch, who ran the Republican communications strategy during the disputed 2000 presidential election recount, has compared Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler before the start of World War II.

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http://politics.lasvegassun.com/2007/10/sheldon-adelson.html

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1. doesn't anyone get that they knew there were no nukes?

Freedom Watch is the marketing arm of the neocons.