Reply #13: More hypocrisy -ACPC [View All]

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The American Committee for Peace in Chechnya is a branch of the PNAC cult. They have made US policy to covertly support the rebels:

"Glen Howard serves as ACPC’s executive director, and he is president of the Jamestown Foundation. Howard previously worked for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a high-tech defense contractor, as a military analyst, and has served as a consultant for the Department of Defense, National Intelligence Council, and “major oil companies operating in Central Asia and the Middle East.” (3) (4)

ACPC’s board of directors is cochaired by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Steven J. Solarz, and Max Kampelman; and the committee’s more than one hundred members reflect a wide range of political tendencies, including such figures as Richard Gere, Morton Ambramowitz, and Geraldine Ferraro. On its membership rolls are many high-profile neoconservatives, including Richard Perle, Frank Gaffney, Elliott Abrams, Midge Decter, William Kristol, Michael Ledeen, and James Woolsey. (5)"

"ACPC’s governing committee includes a wide range of conservatives, neoconservatives, and liberal hawks, although the neoconservatives—most of whom have been associated with the Project for the New American Century—appear to be dominant. Among PNAC activists involved in ACPC are Max Kampelman, Richard Perle, Frank Gaffney, and James Woolsey."

The ACPC regarded Maskhadov as a moderate leader who could have successfully brought the Russo-Chechen war to an end because of his ability to act as a peace negotiator. ACPC says that the rebel forces don’t have links to al-Qaida, and that the U.S. should support their efforts to create an independent Chechnya. ]Whatever the facts about connections between the Chechen rebels and the al-Qaida terrorist network, the rebels certainly include Islamist fundamentalists, including those affiliated with Wahhabism. Nevertheless, ACPC supports the Chechen rebel movement, apparently as a strategy to weaken Russia and establish better U.S. ties in the region—one of increasing geopolitical value and which has vast, unexploited natural resource reserves—including rich oil, gas, and hard mineral deposits. (7) (8)
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Commander Cokehead is talking out of both sides of his mouth again.
Whenever these assholes use the word peace they mean war (for profit).