Deputy Director of the PNAC goes after Kerry and tries to dismiss DSM

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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/705ytncv.asp?pg=1

Kerry: The New Al Gore
John Kerry spins further out into irrelevance.
by Daniel McKivergan (deputy director of the Project for the New American Century)

IT'S NOT EASY for Senator John Kerry these days. Having failed to capture the White House and facing the likely prospect of getting steamrolled by Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic presidential nod, Kerry has been doing all he can to stay on the national radar screen. His latest tact, on display at a town hall meeting in Massachusetts on June 2 and eventually reported on by the national media, has been to suggest that he lost the presidential election because too many voters were, basically, ignoramuses and that the major media should now seek his guidance on which issues are worthy of extensive coverage.

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He then wandered into cuckoo-clock territory by bringing up the latest effort of administration critics to prove the president--and presumably the British prime minister--lied about Iraq. Kerry told the audience he was puzzled as to why Americans and the major news media aren't more interested in the "Downing Street Memo," the leaked minutes from a July 23, 2002 cabinet meeting of Prime Minister Blair published in the Sunday Times of London shortly before British voters reelected him last month. A few days before Kerry's town hall comments, Hollywood activist Tim Robbins wondered the same thing on Chris Matthews's MSNBC show. Without the prompting of the host, he brought up the memo, saying, "there should be more discussion about the Downing Street memo and less about Newsweek."


THE DOCUMENT IN QUESTION was drafted by a Blair policy aide, who summarized his interpretation of the discussion of the July 23 meeting--a meeting which took place in the same month during which there were more incidents of coalition jets being fired on in the no-fly zone and another Iraqi rejection of U.N. efforts to renew inspections after a five-year absence. One particular reference recapped what the chief of British intelligence told the group regarding his impressions from his latest talks with Washington officials: "There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and W.M.D. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." (For an excellent review of the entire memo, see James Robbins article Causing a Commotion.)

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Of course, if the issue was really about "the truth" Kerry would have also told the town hall audience to keep in mind that, among other things, on July 23, 2002 "regime change" in Iraq had been the official government policy since 1998, that Saddam still had neither accounted for substantial stocks of WMDs nor had he complied with numerous U.N. resolutions--starting with the 1991 Gulf War cease-fire resolution--and that just two months ago former Democratic Senator Charles Robb, co-chairman of the commission that
assessed the intelligence failures related to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, stated:

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With this town hall behind him, Kerry's well on his way to marginalizing himself in much the same manner another failed presidential candidate has done since his general election defeat in 2000.

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http://www.newamericancentury.org/danielmckiverganbio.htm

Daniel McKivergan

Daniel McKivergan is deputy director of the Project for the New American Century. Prior to joining the Project, Dan was legislative director for the Office of Senator John McCain of Arizona.


From 1989 to 1992, he worked at the Republican National Committee. In 1993, McKivergan joined the staff of the Project for the Republican Future, a Washington, D.C. think tank, and in 1995 became research director for the Weekly Standard magazine. Two years later, he was appointed legislative director for Congressman Dan Miller (R-FL) before taking the position of policy director for the Philanthropy Roundtable and associate editor of its magazine, Philanthropy. McKivergan also served in the United States Coast Guard Reserve from 1985 to 1989 and holds degrees from Holy Cross and Johns Hopkins.

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[travisbailey]

1. thanks for story

thanks for story

[blm]

2. Funny. People here at DU say the same thing. Seems they really want Kerry

to shut up and go away as much as PNAC does.

[sabra]

3. puts things in perspective....

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

4. Again...Kerry's delay in getting a floor statement out gives Repukes time.

I guess Kerry's strategy is to allow enough time for the Repukes to complete discredit any statement he "may" make on the Senate floor.

JB

[blm]

6. Why don't you go arrange the floor schedule with Frist now that judicial

noms are almost over. I'm sure Kerry will, but you might get an earlier timeslot for him.

[funflower]

5. The Weekly Standard is RW propaganda run by PNACers.

Fortunately, no one reads it.

[Rex]

7. I've used the Weekly Standard as toilet paper

very rough around the edges. Not good. :(

[sabra]

8. ouch! LOL

[LightningFlash]

9. Amazing!!! We are all conspiracy theorists.

We're all conspiracy theorists for believing the 2004 election is stolen, even though there's hordes of evidence to show it was.

We are all cuckoo clock tickers to suggest that the Iraq war was based on pre-manufactured evidence and is a load of poppycock.

It's clear how PNAC's world of corporate media works :eyes: :eyes:

They INVENT whatever reality they choose, and then report that as the reality that is real.

Kerry has been crazy in not bringing the downing street minutes, and the election fraud into the public limelight and bringing it down hard. He always seems to be doing something else or the opposite of what he claims. If only he would be as direct and laser as Dean, I could see him taking the issue. The guy's unstoppable when he isn't in the shadows.

[blm]

11. They labeled him a "conspiracy theory nut" when he uncovered IranContra

and again during BCCI. It didn't stop Kerry even when the press was treating him like a nutcase as per the GOP machine. He pursued BCCI for 5 years.

Has any lawmaker worked for 5 years up against the entire DC powerstructure, including most of his own party, and with a similar level of historic impact?

[earth mom]

10. What utter garbage!

:puke: :puke: :puke:

:grr:

[RBHam]

12. Heil Bush!

Achtung! Democratten Verboten!!!

Support our glorious Fuhrer!

[blm]

13. Heh...that pretty much sums it up.

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