Buchanan's scathing attack on the Committee on the Present Danger

[T Roosevelt]

It's sad that the CPD has ANY traction whatsoever...

The Committee on the Present Confusion
by Patrick J. Buchanan

With full-page ads in The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Washington Times trumpeting its slide down the spillways, The Committee on the Present Danger has been relaunched.

The 1970s committee of Republican hawks and neoconservatives denounced détente and called for clarity, courage and perseverance in the Cold War against a Soviet empire that had overrun Southeast Asia and was on the march in Africa and close to strategic superiority.

The declaration of principles and purposes of the new committee, however, help explains why support for Bush's war is crumbling. It is pure mush. It reads like the final communique, negotiated in some all-night session of deputies, of a contentious meeting of the G-8.

"America faces its greatest threat in a generation," declares CPD. "An organized global movement – assisted by rogue regimes – has adopted mass terror as a weapon to achieve political goals."

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[comradebillyboy]

1. joe schmoe lieberman is also a member

pitchfork pat nails the neocons again

[On the Road]

8. Joe Lieberman is a Member of CPD?

That's the final straw! Unbelievable. Joe must go.

[louis c]

2. Pat Buchanan

A Radical Liberal Bastard. (sarcasm)

I wish he were running as a third party candidate again. He'd surly siphon off some old line conservative votes from Shrub.

[wtmusic]

5. No no no

Kerry has a good chance of winning over those old line conservative votes

[louis c]

7. I can't seem

to win any over because of the social issues.

Maybe you're correct, but I don't see it.

[orthogonal]

3. Deep Irony

Ah the delicious irony: Pat ends his essay by quoting Deep Throat.

[jean]

4. sounds like a Tom Clancy creation - terrorists number in the thousands

WE number in the hundreds of millions. The terrorist threat will be handled and managed excellently once we have Kerry and Edwards in the White House.

[cosmicdot]

6. let the sunshine in

Somebody had to pony up the hundreds of thousands of bucks to pay for these ads. Who's behind it?

Says the Post, "Initial costs have been made from a grant from two businessmen whom he (Hannaford) declined to identify..."


Ed 'The Federalist Society, The Conservative Cabal That's Transforming American Law' Meese

Peter Hannaford was briefly the chair of the 2004 incarnation of the Committee on the Present Danger, a Cold War-era group first founded in 1950 and re-formed in 1976 to push for larger defense budgets and arms buildups, to counter the Soviet Union.

Explaining his reasons for resurrecting the CPD, Hannaford said, “we saw a parallel” between the Soviet threat and the threat from terrorism. The message the group will convey through lobbying, media work and conferences is that “the war on terror needs to be won,” he said.

But one day after the launch of the 2004 CPD, Hannaford resigned. Several CPD members called for Hannaford's resignation, after Laura Rozen reported that he lobbied for the Austrian Freedom Party, which is headed by nationalist Joerg Haider. Haider once commended the "orderly employment policy" of the Third Reich and paid a "solidarity visit" to Saddam Hussein in 2002. Rozen further reported that Hannaford also lobbied for China, Saudi Arabia and Algeria while working at the PR firm the Carmen Groupp.

Hannaford is a public relations and advertising professional, who most famously worked with Ronald Reagan in many capacities, from director of public affairs in Reagan's California governor's office, to director of issues and research for Reagan's 1976 presidential nomination campaign, to senior communications adviser for Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. Hannaford also unsuccessfully ran for office himself once, in 1972 as the Republican nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 7th Congressional District.<5>

Hannaford is currently a senior consultant to the "global communication consultancy" firm APCO Worldwide and the president of Hannaford Enterprises, a public relations firm founded in 1996 by the merger of Hannaford Company and The Carmen Group. He has also served on the U.S. Information Agency's Public Relations Advisory Committee (1981-92); the board of trustees of the White House Preservation Fund (1981-89); the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on Elderly People Living Alone (1986-91); and the advisory committee of Mount Vernon, George Washington's home (1990-96).<6>

Hannaford has also published eight books, several of which focus on Ronald Reagan.

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Peter_Hannaford

Peter Hannaford