Former CIA Director/war profiteer James Woolsey part of McCain's neocon attack team today.

[flpoljunkie]

As you may recall, John McCain was a honorary chair of The Committee to Liberate Iraq. James Woolsey was also a member. The honorary Co-Chairs were, of course, Senators Lieberman and Bayh.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E0D81F38F933A25757C0A9659C8B63

More from the NYT's Bob Herbert...

Spoils of War

By BOB HERBERT
Published: April 10, 2003

Follow the money.

Former Secretary of State George Shultz is on the board of directors of the Bechtel Group, the largest contractor in the U.S. and one of the finalists in the competition to land a fat contract to help in the rebuilding of Iraq.

He is also the chairman of the advisory board of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a fiercely pro-war group with close ties to the White House. The committee, formed last year, made it clear from the beginning that it sought more than the ouster of Saddam's regime. It was committed, among other things, ''to work beyond the liberation of Iraq to the reconstruction of its economy.''

<>Another member is the former C.I.A. director, James Woolsey. He's also a principal in the Paladin Capital Group, a venture capital firm that, as the Center for Public Integrity noted, is soliciting investments for companies that specialize in domestic security. Mr. Woolsey is also a member of the Committee to Liberate Iraq and is reported to be in line to play a role in the postwar occupation.

The war against Iraq has become one of the clearest examples ever of the influence of the military-industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned against so eloquently in his farewell address in 1961. This iron web of relationships among powerful individuals inside and outside the government operates with very little public scrutiny and is saturated with conflicts of interest.

Their goals may or may not coincide with the best interests of the American people. Think of the divergence of interests, for example, between the grunts who are actually fighting this war, who have been eating sand and spilling their blood in the desert, and the power brokers who fought like crazy to make the war happen and are profiting from it every step of the way.

[Joanne98]

1. Neo-con!!!!!!!!!