Did you know McCain's chief foreign policy adviser is a neocon, PNAC's Randy Scheunemann?

[flpoljunkie]

This Randy Scheunemann...


Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) speaks with his director of foreign policy and national security Randy Scheunemann (L), as they board McCain's chartered plane at Washington's Ronald Reagan Airport, May 16, 2008. (Associated Press)

Randy Scheunemann: McCain Adviser Campaigned for War

By Peter Slevin

CHICAGO -- Randy Scheunemann, the foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain who today accused Sen. Barack Obama of a "policy of delusion" toward terrorism, was a prominent advocate of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the lead-up to the war.

In late 2002, Scheunemann helped create The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and became the group's executive director. Its mission, pursued with the Bush administration's blessing, was to build public support for the overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

McCain (R-Ariz.) was on the committee, along with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), former Secretary of State George Shultz, retired Army Gen. Wayne A. Downing and former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who described the project at the time as "a group of people who will talk to Americans about why the liberation of Iraq is something the United States ought to do."

Scheunemann is a longtime GOP foreign policy specialist who has also worked on the staffs of former Senate Republican leaders Bob Dole (Kan.) and Trent Lott (Miss.) He was a board member of the neoconservative think tank, the Project for the New American Century, which often reflected the views of Bush administration hardliners.

In recent years, Scheunemann has registered as a lobbyist for several foreign governments, including Georgia, Macedonia and Taiwan, according to published reports. His firm has also lobbied for the National Rifle Association and defense contractor Lockheed Martin.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/17/randy_scheunemann_mccain_advis.html

[Douglas Carpenter]

1. very important. This tells us a lot about who will be helping guide a McCain presidency

[flpoljunkie]

3. Evidently not important enough for the media, with exception of Slevin, Olbermann, to let us know!

Olbermann mentioned Randy Scheunemann at the beginning of last night's show, and again later on in another segment, but did not tie Scheunemann to those who brought us the Iraq war--the same neocon characters who are itching to go to war with Iran!

This is, I would suggest, journalistic malpractice--and, to what end?

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. that's the "liberal media" for you

today I saw this headline in regards to the Bush Administration's flip-flop about talking with the Iranians: Shifts in Iran Drove Bush to Alter Policy - "President Bush's decision to shift policy and send a senior U.S. envoy to nuclear talks with Iran this weekend was made after increasing signs that Iran was open to possible negotiations and that international sanctions were having an impact on the Islamic republic,"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/16/ST2008071602550.html

When Bush invoked the words "the axis of evil" more than five years ago against Iran, Ayatollah Khatami was President of Iran and Iran was making every overture in the world to open up dialog with the United States. Every since then Iran has made it clear in statement after statement that they wanted direct negotiations with the United States. Iran has not changed its position. Hopefully with both Defense Secretary Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Admiral Mullen warning of dire consequences and a physically impossible mission of an attack on Iran, they might be facing the same reality they had to face with North Korea - that the reality cannot be made to conform to their ideology by force.


Just imagine what a different America - and world we would have if the American public was not constantly being misled, lied to and deceived by a corrupt and dishonest media.

[flpoljunkie]

5. 'Fraid so! Olbermann being the exception on the tube.

[tekisui]

2. McCain=Bush.