"All Roads Lead To PNAC"

[babylonsister]

I have permission to copy this in its entirety from the author, an aide to Mr. Wallace. I received this when sending an inquiry to Doug Wallace, the retired attorney who filed a class action suit against * and Cheney regarding PNAC, as I wanted to clarify a date that was mistaken.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x190942

The author, Mitch Gurney, is having a real difficult time getting any kind of response from senators he sends PNAC info and inquiries to. From Mitch:

Douglas notified me a short while ago regarding the error he made in the
date of the news Press Release...so we have revised the info. Sorry for any
confusion.

I totally concur with you on the PNAC. I attached a piece I wrote regarding
it, if you would like to see it.

I have sent numerous letters to every Senator and many Representatives in
Washington asking point blank if they have approved of the PNAC as US
Foreign Policy and if so why was there no public debate? It is of no
surprise really, but I have not received one reply.even from my own Senators
Boxer and Feinstein who I have written to numerous times asking them
directly about the PNAC. Each of them has replied to other letters I have
sent them regarding other issues, but not to any of my letters regarding the
PNAC, which I find very interesting. Numerous Senators and Representatives
deleted my email letters to them about the PNAC without even reading them!



All roads lead to PNAC…

Recycled in the media and largely left unanswered are several core issues regarding Iraq: 1). The administration fixing intelligence and facts around "policy." 2). An ill-defined mission 3). Inconsistencies in the administrations storyline 4). Establishing an exit strategy

The most important of these questions is # 1, what policy did they fix facts around? The answer to that question would answer most of the others and provide the information necessary to better understand the actions and motivations of the administration. The statement itself implies that a policy exists. I suspect this policy is linked to the administrations overall foreign policy thus influencing its decisions and actions in matters of foreign affairs especially as it would relate to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and on terror.

The image being presented of the administration improvising without a strategy isn’t logical. I suggest we are yet again being misled. The administration does have such a grand foreign policy and to the best of my knowledge we have not had a national dialog about it.

The strategy is boldly detailed in a 76-page report, the writing of which began in 1998 and published in September 2000 titled; "Rebuilding America’s Defenses"(RAD) by an organization called "The Project for the New American Century."(PNAC). It is readily accessible on their website. In their "Statement of Principles" the goal of the project is to "make the case and rally support for American global leadership" and "setting forth guiding principles for American foreign policy for a new American century." A partial list of active members of the PNAC are: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John R. Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, I. Lewis Libby, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Jeb Bush.

I believe the PNAC/RAD report represents the administrations policies based on: 1). The principal architects and their prominent roles within the administration. 2). A concise outline of the administrations objectives. 3). Possible explanations for the administrations motives. 4). Actions currently underway that are in alignment with its stated strategies

Interestingly, a few weeks ago a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson, accused a ''cabal'' led by Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld of hijacking U.S. foreign policy. Wilkerson stressed that the ''Oval Office Cabal'' of Cheney and Rumsfeld were ''extremely powerful'' influences. (www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/1020-01.htm)

The core concepts of RAD are not new; they were originally developed in 1990. Cheney, Secretary of Defense at the time, formed a core group of many of the same individuals in May 1990. Working in secret they developed the "Defense Strategy for the 1990’s" which they presented to Bush Sr., who in turn delivered the new strategy in a foreign-policy address on August 2, 1990, the day Iraq invaded Kuwait. But further pursuit of the Defense Strategies for the 90’s was thwarted when Bush lost the election to Clinton in 1993. From all indications Bush the son used 911 and the war on terror as the occasion to launch a more comprehensive version of defense strategies recommended by the PNAC in the "Rebuilding Americas Defenses"

However, the PNAC/RAD objectives actually represent more of a broad change in American Foreign Policy rather than a specific war on terrorism. US foreign policy as per the PNAC report:

"At present the United States faces no global rival. America’s grand strategy should aim to preserve and extend this advantageous position as far into the future as possible". (pg I, RAD, Introduction)

It recommends we should not be swayed by either the cost or world opinion:

"….we cannot safely avoid the responsibilities of global leadership or the costs that are associated with its exercise".(pg 1 PNAC "Statement of Principles")

"…U.S. national security interests…as well as…American moral interests…demand American political leadership rather than that of the United Nations…nor can the United States assume a UN-like stance of neutrality".(pg 11 Section II, "Four Essential Missions")

The report explains the role of our military:

" …the military’s task… is to secure and expand the "zones of democratic peace;" to deter the rise of a new great power competitor; defend …Europe, East Asia and the Middle East; and to preserve American preeminence …preserve an international security… conducive to American interests and ideals."(pg 2, RAD, Section I "Why Another Defense Review")

It states to ready our military for this grand strategy could take a long time:

"…the process of transformation… is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor". (pg 51, RAD Section V "Creating Tomorrow’s Dominant Force")

As catastrophic as 9-11 was, it appears to have been rather fortuitous. On September 20, 2001 the members of PNAC sent a letter to President Bush endorsing his commitment to root out terrorist and find the perpetrators of 911 and proposed initial steps to be taken to win this "first war of the 21st century". In addition a committee, involving some of the PNAC members as well as others was formed, The Committee for The Liberation of Iraq CLI now disband, that "worked closely with the administration". (For more details on CLI, see my TO comments 10/27 "Where is this committee now")


Recent revelations such as the Downing Street memos have exposed that links to terrorism and WMD may have been used as a pretext to invade Iraq. The PNAC report reveals the following regarding Iraq and provides clues for shaping facts around policy:

"…the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security." (pg 14, RAD, Section III "Repositioning Today’s Force").

"…the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.".(pg 14, RAD, Section III "Repositioning Today’s Force").

Going into Iraq was to pursue an objective to gain a greater foothold in the Middle East in order to build a democratic state conducive to American interest and ideals. There is no exit strategy because that is not part of the plan.

This implies a protracted engagement. It comes as no surprise that the administration seems to be signaling for just such a scenario. One recent article, ("Administration’s Tone Signals a Longer, Broader Iraq Conflict" by David E. Sanger NY Times 10/17/05), Bush’s senior aides are quoted as saying "… the president was concerned that we hadn't described Iraq to the American people for what it is - a struggle of ideologies that isn't going to end with one election, or one constitution, or even a string of elections."

The president has reason for concern. To destabilize rogue states and build democratic ones conducive to American interest and ideals requires time, money, blood, sweat and tears especially when encountering a resistant foe. To achieve these lofty goals will require a lot more people signing off on this then just a select group of political insiders and corporate benefactors. But since the administration has failed to be candid, they may now find themselves in a bit of a quandary.

In order to stay the course, what will their storyline become now if not the truth?

A protracted engagement in Iraq may serve in the administrations best interest by fueling more terrorists with whom to engage in battle that in turn would rile our emotions and thus sustain our support. It could ultimately lead us to the next rogue state. The report reveals an obsession with such states:

"Potential rivals such as China are anxious to exploit…transformational technologies… while adversaries like Iran, Iraq and North Korea are rushing to develop ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons..."(pg 4,RAD, Section I "Why Another Defense Review")

"…We cannot allow North Korea, Iran, Iraq or similar states to undermine American leadership…"(pg 75, RAD, Section VI, "Defense Spending")

The objectives set forth by the PNAC are far reaching with deep, long lasting implications. If my suspicions are correct in the role the PNAC has in the Bush Administrations Foreign Policy, war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and on terror it would be in our best interest to flush this out into the court of public opinion and collectively decide if this is what we really want for our foreign policy.

I think we should be very concerned if pass performance is any measure that in the administrations pursuit to achieve the PNAC goals they may believe the end justifies the means.

Mitch Gurney

[ProSense]

1. First person comes to mind

William "Bill" Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is an American neoconservative lobbyist.

snip...

...During his first year of graduate school, Kristol was Alan Keyes' roommate; this is significant, because many years later, in 1988, Kristol would run Keyes' unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign against Paul Sarbanes in Maryland. After teaching political philosophy and American politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Kristol went to work in government in 1985, serving as chief of staff to Education Secretary William J. Bennett during the Reagan Administration, and then as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle under the first President Bush (where he received much of the credit and little of the blame for Quayle's actions).

Kristol first made his mark as leader of the Project for the Republican Future, a conservative think tank, and rose to fame as a conservative opinionmaker during the battle over the Clinton health care plan. In his first of what would become legendary strategy memos circulated among Republican policymakers, Kristol said the party should "kill," not amend or compromise on, the Clinton health care plan. Thus, Kristol presented the first public document uniting Republicans behind total opposition to the reform plan. A later memo advocated the phrase There is no health care crisis, which Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole used in his response to Clinton's 1994 State of the Union address.

After the Republican sweep of both houses of Congress in 1994, arguably a result of the debacle over health care reform, Kristol established along with neoconservative John Podhoretz and with financing from Rupert Murdoch, the conservative periodical The Weekly Standard. In 1997 he founded, with Robert Kagan, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a movement credited in part for some of the foreign policy decisions of the Bush administration as evidenced by their 1998 letter to US President Bill Clinton advocating military action in Iraq to "protect our vital interests in the Gulf." He is also a member of the long-time conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute from which the Bush administration has borrowed over two dozen members to fill various government offices and panels. Kristol is currently chairman of PNAC and editor of The Weekly Standard.

In 2005, Kristol caused controversy by praising President George W. Bush's second inaugural address without disclosing his role as a consultant to the writing of the speech. Kristol praised the speech highly in his role as a regular political contributor during FOX's coverage of the address, as well as in a Weekly Standard article, without diclosing his involvement in the speech either time.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kristol

[bloom]

2. This does tie things together nicely.

And the addition of the Kristol bio as well.


As much of a plan as the "Rebuilding America’s Defenses" lays out - it seems to be hiding a lot of motivating factors at the same time.


At this point - it seems that a lot of Americans have bought into the plan - whether they know it is a plan or not. But a lot of people (I would guess the majority - based on Bush*s poll numbers) haven't.

[babylonsister]

3. Agreed. It'd be nice if the truth were known by all. nt

[leesa]

4. And the architects of PNAC lead to the architects of 9-11...same people

[babylonsister]

7. The more I know, the more I think this. nt

[cantstandbush]

5. Maybe all WARS lead to PNAC? n/t

[babylonsister]

6. Or PNAC is the genesis of all 21st century wars? nt

[LunaC]

8. No response is SOP

As the Unofficial Resident PNAC Fanatic, I've written to dozens upon dozens (at this point, maybe hundreds) of media figures and legislators alike and with the exception of Helen Thomas, no one wants to acknowledge the organization behind our current woes. Thankfully, PNAC 101 is getting more and more hits as time goes by so the word is getting out in a slow trickle but a little media attention would go a long way to wake people up to the Truth. Problem is, the media isn't interested in Truth any more.

[babylonsister]

9. LunaC, I was hoping you'd see this!

There are other people who keep fighting the good fight, like my friend Mitch here.

[LunaC]

10. My only hope is Sen. Rockefeller and maybe Feinstein

After the initial Senate Intelligence Committee Report, Rockefeller alluded to PNAC when he said “It was clear to all of us in this room who were watching that, and to many others, that they had made up their mind that they were going to go to war. And I believe to this day, and I always have and I’ve said so publicly many times in regretting my vote, that there was a predetermination, even going back to 1998 in a letter to Bill Clinton, saying, "The time for diplomacy has ended and now is the time for the use of military force."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38650-2004Jul9_3.html

I'm hoping PNAC will be fully exposed when Phase Two of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report is completed. Maybe Mitch should focus on Rockefeller. Although I must admit, when the Dems forced the issue of the Phase Two report on the Repugs, I wrote to Rockefeller to nudge him in PNAC's direction but - as usual - no response. Di-Fi, otoh, sent a "Thanks for your comments - we're working on it" response so maybe this is another avenue for him to pursue.

Please keep us posted on Mitch's progress and feel free to pm me any time!

[babylonsister]

11. Mitch has told me he'll be joining DU by next week, so you can

ask him anything. Or, I have his e-mail address if you'd like it. I also have something else from him that I'll post shortly (I'm off to find it).

[LunaC]

12. EXCELLENT!

Another PNAC Warrior will be warmly welcome! I await further developments....

[babylonsister]

13. The current message from Mitch:

Their Mission is clear, their conviction is strong…

"American foreign and defense policy is adrift. Conservatives have criticized the incoherent policies of the Clinton Administration. They have also resisted isolationist impulses from within their own ranks. But conservatives have not confidently advanced a strategic vision of America's role in the world. They have not set forth guiding principles for American foreign policy. They have allowed differences over tactics to obscure potential agreement on strategic objectives. And they have not fought for a defense budget that would maintain American security and advance American interests in the new century."

"We aim to change this. We aim to make the case and rally support for American global leadership".

"Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests"?

"We are in danger of squandering the opportunity and failing the challenge. Cuts in foreign affairs and defense spending, inattention to the tools of statecraft, and inconstant leadership are making it increasingly difficult to sustain American influence around the world".

"…the essential elements of … success… a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities".

"…we cannot safely avoid the responsibilities of global leadership or the costs that are associated with its exercise".

"Our aim is to remind Americans ….and to draw their consequences for today"…

· we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global
responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;

• we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;

• we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;

• we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.

"Such a …policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary…

PNAC Statement of Principles - June 3, 1997

Signed:

Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle Peter W. Rodman , Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel , & Paul Wolfowitz

[LunaC]

14. We're on the same page

Many of his quotes are included in PNAC 101 so we're both disseminating the same info. Consistency is a good thang!

Thanks for finding and posting that.

[babylonsister]

15. Anytime, LunaC. I sent him this thread, so he'll be reading it and

posting soon.

[bloom]

16. I suppose that people sign

other documents like that...

But something about it seems like they are signing a new "Declaration of Independence" - and the actions of the Bush administration back that up. "The constitution is just a god-damned piece of paper" - these people are not bound by international law or anything else. And don't care if people know.


I caught a little of the speech (on Cspan) that Hillary was giving at Princeton Wed. about the Middle East. One thing she said was that history wasn't important (or something to that effect) - she was pooh-poohing people from countries with a long history and suggested that they thought it meant a lot more than it did. Since her speech was slanted stongly toward Israel - there was little doubt as to the implication of that.

I wondered if her speech could have been co-written by Kristol - just like Bush*s last inaugural address. It seemed like just the kind of thing he would approve of.

[concerned citizen23]

24. PNAC 101

Hi LunaC:

I am printing your work on the PNAC 101 and will read it tonight and look forward to learning and exchanging views with you on this.

[concerned citizen23]

30. Excellent timeline on the PNAC, LunaC

I read your time line on the PNAC and you did a great job with that LunaC!

Thanks!

[LarryWilson]

17. Nice accumulation of evidence

I've been telling people about PNAC for years. The 1997 letter to Clinton is their blueprint for what's happening now, but people are just as dumb as a sack of hammers. You can show them the letter, you can show them the PNAC site, you can show them the progression of events under Bush, and they look like a deer in the headlights.

PNAC is now focused on Iran and Syria. They want to guarantee our energy for a while. My blog here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/21/17380/5477

lays out what the oil situation is, why BushCo needs to invade (and/or nuke) Iran, and what it plans to do with protesters. Lots of links to sources. Warning: it's long and detailed, but if you want a pretty good picture of what's coming in the next year or so, read it. If you're scared easily, don't read it.

If you think you know what's happening.. think again.

[AntiFascist]

20. Have you seen this article?

from the Independent:

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article339928.ece

adapted from Jeremy Leggett's book "Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis".

It seems to put everything into perspective with respect to why the US needs to fight oil wars.

<snip>

Most US presidents since the Second World War have ordered military action of some sort in the Middle East. American leaders may prefer to dress their military entanglements east of Suez in the rhetoric of democracy-building, but the long-running strategic theme is obvious. It was stated most clearly, paradoxically, by the most liberal of them. In 1980 Jimmy Carter declared access to the Persian Gulf a national interest to be protected "by any means necessary, including military force".

<snip>

As for competition over diminishing supplies, therein lies the stuff of nightmares. The Pentagon established a Central Command in 1983, one of five unified commands around the world, with the clear task of protecting the global flow of petroleum. "Slowly but surely," Michael Klare concludes, "the US military is being converted into a global oil-protection service."

<snip>

Oil dependency could yet prove to be the route to a Third World War. The stress associated with an unforeseen early topping point surely makes that horrific prospect more, not less, likely.

[concerned citizen23]

29. Excellent article

Thanks for sharing this article ...really gives you a lot to think about.

[AntiFascist]

32. You're welcome, and welcome to DU!

:kick:

[LunaC]

21. Excellent compilation of info

the event of another 9/11-type terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Vice President Dick Cheney's office wants the Pentagon to be prepared to launch a potential tactical nuclear attack on Iran - even if the Iranian government was not involved with any such terrorist attack against the U.S.:


PNAC 101 at the link below is another compilation that gives historical perspective in support of your info…it all ties together and paints a grim picture for the future.

The dots connect as follows and resemble the same pattern as with Iraq:

“Iran is a threat” propaganda is circulated to set the tone…”attack” on America occurs just as the (phony) bin Laden (bogeyman) tape promises…Iran is (falsely) blamed…Iran is attacked…Iran oil is traded in $ rather than Euros.

Wash. Rinse. History repeats.


oh yeah...welcome to DU!

[bloom]

18. One retiring Senator

who spoke out... (Ernest "Fritz" Hollings)


"With Iraq no threat, why invade a sovereign country?," he wrote. "The answer: President Bush's policy to secure Israel. Led by Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Charles Krauthammer, for years there had been a domino school of thought that the way to guarantee Israel's security is to spread democracy in the area."

"...That is not a conspiracy. That is the policy. I didn't like to keep it a secret, maybe; but I can tell you now, I will challenge any one of the other 99 Senators to tell us why we are in Iraq, other than what this policy is here. It is an adopted policy, a domino theory of The Project For The New American Century. Everybody knows it because we want to secure our friend, Israel...

"...I am going to state what I believe to be the fact. In fact, I believe it very strongly. They just are whistling by on account of the pressures that we get politically. Nobody is willing to stand up and say what is going on."

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5531

[Emit]

19. I posted this info yesterday, but I think it is also fitting here

So sorry if it's a dupe for some.

This paper provides a detailed perspective when examining PNAC and US Foreign Policy, as well as the other groups and people involved. Perhaps it may be of use somehow. What initially interested me was the Figure 1 on page 11. (I can't get the Figure 1 to copy, so try the link.) It is a simple, yet adequate example illustrating the influences of our current foreign policy.

U.S. Policy Towards Iraq: Unraveling the Web
Laurence A. Toenjes

Executive Summary

When the United States began transporting troops to the Persian Gulf in the fall of 2002 it was evident that the war against Iraq was underway. This paper was begun in an attempt to answer the question: How did the war against Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda become the war to depose Saddam Hussein?

The effort to understand this change in U.S. policy led to a picture of a relatively small group of persons associated with certain think tanks and other organizations achieving disproportionate influence over the policy formulation process. The activities of fourteen organizations were coordinated by individuals who comprised a web of interlocking memberships...

~snip~

The main contribution of this paper is the attempt to quantify the inter-linked nature of the 14 organizations by cross-tabulating individuals with memberships in two or more of them. Examples: Richard Perle was associated with 10 of the 14, Jeane Kirkpatrick with 7, James Woolsey with 6, John Bolton with 4. Altogether 223 links were found between the 14 groups, where a link is defined as the association of a single individual with two organizations. Although over 650 individuals associated with the 14 organizations included in the study were analyzed, just 9 individuals formed 121 of the inter-group links, accounting for over half of the total. This concentration of the inter-group linkages suggests that a small number of individuals could effectively influence and coordinate the foreign policy impact of these organizations.

~snip~

A major purpose in creating this diagram was to provide a visual representation of the frequently-referred-to interrelationships of core organizations involved with formulating U.S. policy on Iraq...

~snip~

Web of Organizations Involved in
Formulating U.S. Foreign Policy on Iraq

Figure 1 see page 11 (pdf)

~snip~

Observation 4: PNAC has the largest number of links (71 in all, including links of degrees 1 and 2 which are not shown in Figure 1) with the remaining organizations (See row 16, Table 6), followed by CSP with 50 and CLI with 49. The two other members of the 5-member clique identified above—DPB and JINSA—follow with 43 linkages each. This is further evidence of the centrality of these organizations within the complete network of 14

~snip~

Analysis of the 5-member clique

~snip~

Within the 5-member clique, henceforth referred to merely as the clique, some degree of specialization of roles is discernible, and acknowledged in part by the manner in which at least three of the members describe themselves. While there is still considerable overlap in functions, the major roles played by each of the 5 members of the clique might be described as follows:

PNAC Planning function
CLI Coordination function
CSP Information dissemination function
DPB Policy Action
JINSA Interface with Israel

Each of these organizations will be discussed in turn, with a focus on the specialized function they appear to play within the clique...

Cont'd: http://www.opednews.com/toenjes_IraqPolicyWeb_withTables_July19.doc
(pdf) note: figures/graphs show up better in this version

HTML version

[Emit]

22. babylonsister

Are you in touch with Wallace's office? I live near this guy and just sent him an email. Just curious about what kind of support he's receiving.

[concerned citizen23]

23. Thanks babylonsister

Thanks for posting my PNAC article on DU, and I appreciate all the great feedback from everyone.

I am in contact with Wallace and the more exposure his efforts get, the more support he is receiving. But it will take a great deal of publicity and funding so if anyone who wishes to support his cause can help, we would welcome you!

I'm still working on getting familiar with the DU site but plan to become a member and search the other pieces on the PNAC, I am particularly interested in LunaC's work...

Again, thanks and I will be adding some more info in the next few days.

[babylonsister]

27. We look forward to hearing much more from you, c c23! nt

[babylonsister]

26. Emit, the post below is from Mitch, the man who wrote the

article. He's now a DU member. You can ask him anything, or PM him.
I believe he works for or with Mr. Wallace.

[Little Star]

25. K&R 4 Quality Post

[leesa]

28. And the architects of PNAC are the architects of 9-11.

[concerned citizen23]

31. Members of PNAC and a brief recap of their resumes:

I've done some research and compiled a list of the members of PNAC, Below is a brief recap of their resumes:

William Kristol
Chairman of PNAC
Current editor of a conservative periodical The Weekly Standard. Owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
Was a member of the Committee Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
Strong advocate for ousting Saddam Hussien since Gulf War 1991
Served as chief of staff to Education Secretary William J. Bennett during the Reagan Administration
Served as chief of staff to VP Dan Quayle under the first President Bush - Speech writer for Quayle

Gary Schmitt
Executive Director, Project for the New American Century
Executive Director, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Was a member and Secretary of the Committee of the Liberation of Iraq
Currently a board of directors of the U.S. Committee on NATO
A Department of Defense consultant.
Early 1980s was a member of the professional staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
From 1984 to 1988 served as an executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the Reagan White House.

John R. Bolton
A Director of PNAC
US Ambassador to the UN (2005-Present)
US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control during the administration of GWBush (2001-2005)
US Ambassador to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2001
Was a member of the Council on National Policy in 1988
Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs at the Department of State (1989-1993)
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice (1985-1989)
Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination, USAID (1982-1983)
General Counsel, USAID (1981-1982).
Supporter of the Veitnam war. Was enlisted in the National Guard, but did not serve in the War
Prominent participant in many neoconservative lobbying groups such as: .
the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG)

Robert Kagan
Co-founder / Director of PNAC
Worked at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1985-1988)
Served as prinicple speech writer Secretary of State George P. Shultz (1984-1985)
Was foreign policy advisor to New York Representative and future Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp (1983).
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Brother Frederick and father Donald are also prominent American neoconservatives and affliated with PNAC

Devon Gaffney Cross
Director of PNAC
Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Was senior associate editor of The Washington Quarterly
Worked at Foreign Policy Magazine
Worked at the International Security Studies Program and the Woodrow Wilson Center
She has extensive experience in public policy program development

Bruce P. Jackson
Director of PNAC
Involved with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Is the President of the U.S. Committee on NATO
Was chairman of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
Former VP Strategy and Planning at Lockheed-Martin (Between 1993-2002)
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations
On the advisory board of the New Atlantic Initiative
2000 Presidential Campaign a delegate committed to gov. GW Bush - chaired the Foreign Policy Subcommittee of the Republican Platform Committee.
1995 and 1996 was National Co-Chairman of the Bob Dole/Dole for President Finance Committee
In 1996 a delegate to the Republican Nat.Convention - served on the Platform Committee and Platform's subcommittee for National Security and Foreign Policy
Founder and President of the Project on Transitional Democracies
(The Project is a multi-year endeavor aimed at accelerating the pace of reform in post-1989 democracies and advancing the date for the integration of these democracies into the institutions of the Euro-Atlantic).
1979 to 1990 served in the United States Army as a Military Intelligence Officer
1986 to 1990 served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in policy positions pertaining to nuclear forces and arms control
Worked for Lehman Brothers, an investment bank in New York, was a strategist in the firm's proprietary trading operations.

Dick Cheney
VP of US
1989-1993 served as Secretary of Defense in the George H.W. Bush administration
He directed Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East
Set up a team of individuals in 1990, several of whom are now members of PNAC and created the The Defense Strategy for the 1990's which was the bases that became the PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses"
White House Chief of Staff under Gerald R. Ford
From 1978 to 1989 served as a U.S. Representative from Wyoming
A member of the Council on Foreign
Former CEO of Halliburton -still drawing a $1,000,000 per year paycheck from Halliburton while serving as the VP
Has ties to the Carlyle Group
A former Senior Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute-served on the Advisory Board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA),
Opposed the Equal Rights Amendment - anti-abortion advocate - Opposed the sale ban of armor-piercing bullets - oppose the ban on guns that can get through metal detectors -
His persistent embroglio in the Junior Bush regime has been with his Energy Task Force through which during the early months of 2001 he was taking dictation from Enron and studying petro maps of Iraq, and wants to keep all those notes a secret.
Perhaps the most influential VPs in history - During his 2001-2004 term with GWB he has:
Championed Donald Rumsfeld for Defense Secretary
Insisted, over fierce objections by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, on placing Paul Wolfowitz in the number two position at the Pentagon"
Insisted, again over Powell's misgivings, on making ultra-unilateralist John Bolton, then vice-president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), undersecretary of state for arms control and international security.
Reportedly played a key role in the appointment of another controversial neo-conservative, Elliott Abrams, to head the Middle East office on the National Security Council.
Reportedly visited the headquarters of the CIA several times in the run-up to the war in Iraq, in what was seen as pressure on CIA analysts to take a darker view of Saddam Hussein's alleged ties to al Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction

Donald Rumsfeld
21st US Secretary of Defense - GWBush
Strong ties to the Intelligence Community -as well as to the Atlantic Institute - member of the Bilderberg group
A financial supporter for the Center for Security Policy.
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
1991-1993 served as Chairman and CEO of General Instrument Corporation
Served as Chairman of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and was chair of the RAND Corporation
1983 -1984 Served as Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East - was main conduit for American military intelligence, hardware and strategic advice to Saddam Hussein
13th U.S. Secretary of Defense (1975-1977) Ford Administration
(As 13th US Sec.of State was instrumental in increasing the power of the military within the administration, accomplished by promulgating the view that the Soviet Union was increasing defense spending and pursuing secret weapons programs, and that the proper response was a re-escalation of the arms race. This view was in direct contrast to CIA and generally accepted reports on the declining state of the Soviet economy)
1973-1974 served as U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Was Director of the Economic Stabilization Program; and member of the President's Cabinet (1971-1972).
Served in the Nixon Administration as Director of the United States Office of Economic Opportunity, Assistant to the President
Was member of the President's Cabinet (1969-1970); Counselor to the President
From 1977 to 1985 served as CEO, President, and then Chairman of G.D. Searle & Company, a worldwide pharmaceutical company

Paul Wolfowitz
Current President of The World Bank
Served as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy - GWB
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Member of the Trilateral Commission
1982-1986 Served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Served as Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State during the Reagan Presidency
1977-1980 Served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs in the Carter Admin.
"Served on the committee known as Team B approved by then CIA Director Bush Sr. Team B created a report that became the intellectual foundation of ""the window of vulnerability"" and of the massive arms buildup that began toward the end of the Carter administration and accelerated under President Reagan.
From 1973-1977 held a variety of positions in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency including Special Assistant to the Director for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

Zalmay Khalilzad
Current U.S. ambassador to Iraq
Special Envoy on Irag & Islamic Terror
Current US ambassador to Afghanistan
Director of National Security Council
Member of PNAC
1993-1999 Director of the Strategy, Doctrine and Force Structure program for the defense think tank the Rand Corporation's Project Air Force
From 1991-1992 was a senior Defense Department official for policy planning. He served as a counsellor to Donald Rumsfeld.
Served under former US Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush as special assistant to the president for Southwest Asia, the Near East and North Africa.
From 1985-1989 served as a senior US Department of State official advising on the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war
1984-85 Fellow of Policy Planning at the State Department, under Paul Wolfowitz
RAND senior political scientist
Was an adviser for Unocal

Elliott Abrams
Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs -GWB
Deputy National Security Adviser GWB
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations, 2001-02
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom: Chairman, 2000-2001; Commissioner, 1999-2001
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Dir on the National Security Council Served in Reagan Pres.
Involved in the Iran-Contra Affair, over which he subsequently pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress.
(During his tenure in the Reagan presidency, Abrams clashed regularly with mainstream church groups and human rights organizations
They accused him of covering up atrocities committed by the military forces of U.S.-backed governments, while at the same time exaggerating abuses by insurgency groups and governments which the U.S. opposed
When Congress shut down funding for the Contras with the 1982 Boland Amendment, the Reagan administration began looking for other avenues for funding the group.
As part of this strategy, Abrams flew to London using a fake name to solicit a $10 million contribution from the Sultan of Brunei).
Inter-American Foundation: nominated as member of Board of Directors for the 1985-90 term
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1985-89
Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, 1981-85
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1981
Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan: Chief of Staff, Special Counsel, 1977-79
Sen. Henry M. Jackson: Staffer/Special Counsel, 1975-76
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Assistant Counsel, 1975

I. Lewis Libby
10/28/05 - Indicted on five counts which included obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury.
2001-2005 - Assistant to the President, chief of staff to the Vice President and national security affairs adviser to the Vice President
2000 - Adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney in the 2000 presidential campaign
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Member, Center for Strategic and International Studies - Homeland Defense
1995-2001 - Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Attorney
1992-1995 - U.S. Department of Defense, deputy under secretary-policy
1989-1992 - U.S. Department of Defense, deputy undersecretary-strategy and resources
1985-1989 - Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, attorney
1982-1985 - US Department of State, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, special projects director
1981-1982 - US Department of State, policy planning staff, member

Paula Dobriansky
2001 Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
Member of and the Trilateral Commission
Previously served as Senior Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Council on Foreign Relations,
Has served as Senior International Affairs and Trade Advisor at the law firm of Hunton & Williams
Served as Co-Chair of the International TV Council at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Information Agency (1990-1993),
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1987-1990
Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE
Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the 1985 UN Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya
Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council (1983-1984
She also was Foreign Policy Coordinator for Bob Dole's 1996 Campaign
Has lectured and published articles, book chapters and op-ed pieces on foreign affairs-related topics

Jeb Bush
1998 Gov of Florida - re-elected November 2002
Brother of GWB
2001: Rumors circulated that he was having an affair to Cynthia Henderson, secretary of the Department of Management Services, which he denied.

Gary Bauer
In 2000 ran for the Rep.Party nomination for President of US
Served Under Secretary of Education and Domestic Policy Advisor from 1985 to 1989
Notable for his ties to several fundamentalist and evangelical Christian groups and campaigns.
Founded the Campaign for Working Families (http://www.cwfpac.com/mission.htm) (CWF) in 1996
Deputy Under Secretary for Planning and Budget, 1982-1985
Reagan Administration : Director, ;; Policy Analyst, Office of Policy Development, 1981-1982
Office of Policy Development, 1987-1988
Deputy Assistant Director for Legal Policy, Office of Policy Development, 1982
Republican National Committee : Assistant Director of Opposition Research, 1969-1973
Reagan-Bush Committee : Senior Policy Analyst
Rumors abounded during his campaign for presidency that he was having an affair with a former secretary.
American Values: Founder, President

William J. Bennett
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy by President Bush
Served as United States Secretary of Education( 1985 -1988)
Co-director of Empower America and EMPOWER.
Senior advisor and founder of Americans for Victory Over Terrorism, serves
While authoring several books on creating a more "moral" America, Bennett was a gambling fanatic.
On September 28, 2005 His moral positioning became even more questionable when he discussed abortion and crimes rates on his syndicated radio program "Morning in America," saying:
"...(to) reduce crime, you could -- ... you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down"....

Eliot A. Cohen
Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University?
Consultant to the current Bush administration
Worked for the Department of Defense
Was a member of the Committee of the Liberation of Iraq.
Is considered to be a prominent neo-conservative
Taught at the U.S. Naval War College.
Specializes in strategic studies, the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms control, and NATO.

Midge Decter
Author of the soon-to-be-published book "Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait
Is a conservative journalist and author of various books
With spouse, Norman Podhoretz, created a formidable political team in the 1970s as they deserted the Democratic Party, and then, as leaders of the Committee on the Present Danger -- like PNAC a coalition of mainly Jewish, neo-conservatives and more traditional right-wing hawks-- helped lay the foreign-policy foundation for the rise of Ronald Reagan.
With and Rumsfeld co-chaired the international offshoot of the committee, called" the Committee for the Free World.
"We're not in the Middle East to bring sweetness and light to the world. We're there to get something we and our friends in Europe depend on. Namely, oil." --Decter on the Warren Olney show, Los Angeles, 5/21/04

Steve Forbes
Son of Malcolm Forbes and the editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes
One of signers of the Statement of Principles of PNAC
Forbes entered the Republican primaries for President of the United States in 1996 and 2000
He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Empower America, a political reform organization founded by Jack Kemp, William J. Bennett, and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick from December 1993 until June 1996.

Aaron Friedberg
Professor at of Princeton University
Signers of the Statement of Principles PNAC
Friedberg is cited in Benjamin Schwarz's "Why America Thinks It Has to Run the World" in The Atlantic Monthly, June 1996 issue:
"In a typical evaluation of East Asia's strategic future the foreign-policy expert Aaron Friedberg states darkly in the journal International Security":
In the long run, it is Asia that seems far more likely to be the cockpit of great power conflict. The half millennium during which Europe was the world's primary generator of war (as well as of wealth and knowledge) is coming to a close. But, for better and for worse, Europe's past could be Asia's future.
"Friedberg's assertion nicely illustrates the ambivalence with which the U.S. national-security community views East Asia's future. He both prophesies an exhilarating Pacific Century and warns the West that the East may once again be up to no good."

Francis Fukuyama
Influential American political economist and author
A member of GWB President's Council on Bioethics
Was strongly critical of the invasion of Iraq
Fukuyama is best known as the author of the controversial book The End of History and the Last Man
Published in 1992, The End of History was popular in neo-conservative circles and made him something of an intellectual celebrity.

Frank Gaffney
President of the Center for Security Policy
Columnist for The Washington Times
Former Reagan administration Assistant Secretary of Defense
Former chairman of the High Level Group at NATO
He is a senior advisor at Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (AVOT)

Fred C. Ikle
Distinguished Scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
His expertise is in defense and foreign policy; nuclear strategy; Korea; and the emerging international order
Serves as governor of the Smith Richardson Foundation
Serves as chairman of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Served as a Commissioner on the National Commission on Terrorism, which produced the Report of the National Commission on Terrorism in June 2000 for President Clinton
Was Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in the Reagan Adminstration
Director for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1973-1977)
Also cochaired the bipartisan Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy, which published Discriminate Deterrence in January 1988.
Served as Chairman of the Board of the Telos Corporation
Served as Director of the Zurich-American Insurance Companies
Served as Director of the CMC Energy Services
Author of several books and numerous articles on defense, foreign policy, and arms control, including Every War Must End and How Nations Negotiate

Donald Kagan
Currently Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale
Staunch neoconservative
With Son Frederick, published "While America Sleeps"-- a clarion call to increase defense spending
Father of Robert Kagan
He converted from a liberal Democrat in the 1970's

Norman Podhoretz
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Married to Midge Dector
Podhoretz is the father of John Podhoretz, a columnist for the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post
His son-in-law, Elliott Abrams, held a number of controversial posts in Reagan's State Department and was eventually convicted in the Iran-Contra scandal for lying to Congress, now serves in George Walker Bush's National Security Council as his top Middle East adviser.
1981-87served with the U.S. Information Agency

Dan Quayle
Former 44th VP of US under Bush Sr.
Member of the board of Freedom House
Elected to the U.S. Senate from the State of Indiana 1980 -1986
Elected to the U.S. Congress from Indiana's Fourth Congressional District 1976 & 1978
Advisor to the firm Cerberus Capital Management
President of Quayle and Associates

Peter W. Rodman
Currently Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Author of More Precious Than Peace, a book on the Cold War in the Third World.

Stephen P. Rosen
Professor National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University
A consultant for the President's Commission on Integrated Long-term Strategy
Has published articles on ballistic missile defense, the American theory of limited war, and on the strategic implications of the AIDS epidemic
Director of political-military affairs at the National Security Council in the Ronald Reagan White House

Henry S. Rowen
Was appointed on 2/12 2004 one of members of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the US Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
Member of the Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board
Was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense (1989-1991)
Was Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1981-1983)
Rowen served as President of the RAND Corporation (1967-1972)
Was Assistant Director, U.S. Bureau of the Budget (1965-1966)

Vin Weber
Congressman from Minnesota
Co-founder and co-director of Empower America.
Since 1994 has been the managing partner of Clark & Weinstock's Washington D.C. office, which specializes in reputation and crisis management, public policy counsel, strategic corporate communications during mergers and other financial transactions, and the development of business ethics and corporate responsibility programs.
Co-director of the Aspen Institute's Domestic Strategy Group.
Chairman of the board at the National Endowment for Democracy

George Weigel
Conservative author, Roman Catholic theologian and political and social activist/
Was also Founding President of the James Madison Foundation
Considered to be a conservative Roman Catholic social ethicist
Senior Fellow, John M. Olin Chair in Religion and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC)
His areas of expertise include Catholic social teaching, religion and democracy.
In his political writings, Weigel argues for a foreign policy of "moralism without illusions." His position is that the threat of evil in the world cannot be escaped, negotiated with, reformed, or constrained by international norms. Facing a world where "evildoers" still roam free, Weigel advocates a U.S. foreign policy guided not by moral notions about how nations should behave, but by moral reasoning. In some cases, he adds, moral reasoning may require that the United States support authoritarian regimes to fend off the greater evils of moral decay and threats to the security of the United States, which in his view is "the champion of all that is good and right."