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merbex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 03:37 PM
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Why doesn't a Dem Senator get up and say "I reject the vision that
that is taking hold in the Republican Party and most especially in this Administration and which can be found at the website www.newamericancentury.org. I reject it and that is the debate we are having here

Sadly,most Americans do not know of that website or how our foreign policy as it exists today can be found there....."

Why doesn't a Dem Senator get the word out about that site which horrifies every person I've ever sent to that site?



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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 03:42 PM
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1. Because too goddamn many of them support it.
Biden's name is on their last letter. Will Marshall of PPI/DLC/NDOL is on several, and he was advising Kerry's campaign on foreign policy. Kerry's buddy Holbrooke is there as well. Through PPI, which is a division of DLC, the PNAC agenda has been adopted in an only slightly whitewashed form.

Too bad Byrd didn't mention it :(
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merbex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 03:44 PM
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3. Maybe that is our litmus question
for Dems

Do you support the vision that is articulated at the website newamericancentury.org?
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 03:42 PM
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2. Right Why NOT? nt
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 03:44 PM
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4. He's not a senator, but has been speaking non-stop:

Here's Clark on TPM:
 And in an odd replay of the Carter administration, found itself chained to the Iraqi policy -- promoted by the Project for a New American Century -- much the same way that in the Carter administration some of the same people formed the Committee on the Present Danger which cut out from the Carter administration the ability to move forward on SALT II.

TPM: This being the same neo-conservatives that people hear about in the press today?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_09_28.html
and here's PNAC responding:
CLARK EMERGING AS AN OPPONENT OF REAGANISM

http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html& Path=NYS/2003/10/02&ID=Ar00100
Candidate Derides Committee That Crafted Cold War Victory
Also, after his book was published, the press noticed the PNAC chapter. here's the Islamic press:

7 Muslim Countries Were On U.S. War List: Wesley Clark

http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-09/22/article04.shtml
"What a mistake! I reflected...as though the terrorism were simply coming
from these states," Clark wrote
WASHINGTON, September 22 (IslamOnline.net) - U.S. Presidential hopeful
Wesley Clark, the former general who led NATO forces during the Kosovo
campaign, revealed on Monday, September 22, that the Bush administration
had set-up a five-year plan to invade seven Muslim countries after the
9/11 attacks, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran,


The full-mooners fixated on a think tank called the Project for the New American Century, which has a staff of five and issues memos on foreign policy. To hear these people describe it, PNAC is sort of a Yiddish Trilateral Commission, the nexus of the sprawling neocon tentacles.
We'd sit around the magazine guffawing at the ludicrous stories that kept sprouting, but belief in shadowy neocon influence has now hardened into common knowledge. Wesley Clark, among others, cannot go a week without bringing it up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/opinion/06BROO.html?ex=1073970000&en=46d5aea99db879d4&ei=5 062&partner=GOOGLE

Of course, fool-mooners here think that he is PNAC....(kinda like Krugman was accused by wingnutz of having worked for Enron)
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