McCain Confronted About His Role In PNAC

[SaveOurSovereignty]

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[truth2power]

1. ANSWER. THE. QUESTION.

1. What is your role as president of the New Citizen Project, the chief parent organization of PNAC?

2. Has this role been responsible for your reluctance to support victims' family members and first responders who are begging for a new investigation into 9/11?

Answer: blah blah blahblah...Lieberman...blahblah :crazy:

[biermeister]

2. great job!!!

A very well planned and executed operation. I like the handing out of material afterward and providing video coverage in case of an issue. Mcshame is a puppet like most politicians. You didn't really think he was going to answer that question, did you ? :)

Keep up the good work.

[whistle]

3. That was ten minutes totaly wasted, what was the point? Did McCain

...have a role in PNAC and if he did, please show links that define what that role was such as these:

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John McCain’s Chilling Project for America
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080612_john_mccains_chilling_project_for_america/
Posted on Jun 12, 2008
By Elliot Cohen

John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is “the end justifies the means,” and the end of establishing the United States as the world’s sole superpower justifies, in its estimation, anything from military control over the information on the Internet to the use of genocidal biological weapons. Over its two terms, the George W. Bush administration has planted the seeds for this geopolitical master plan, and now appears to be counting on the McCain administration, if one comes to power, to nurture it.

The Road Map to War

The blueprint for this “new order” was drafted in February 1992, at the end of the George H.W. Bush administration when Defense Department staffers Paul Wolfowitz, I. Lewis Libby and Zalmay Khalilzad, acting under then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, drafted the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG). This document, also known as the “Wolfowitz Doctrine,” was an unofficial, internal document that advocated massive increases in defense spending for purposes of strategic proliferation and buildup of the military in order to establish the pre-eminence of the United States as the world’s sole superpower. Advocating pre-emptive attacks with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, it proclaimed that “the U.S. must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests.” The document was also quite clear about what should be the United States’ main objective in the Middle East, especially with regard to Iraq and Iran, which was to “remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region’s oil.” The Wolfowitz Doctrine was leaked to The New York Times and The Washington Post, which published excerpts from it. Amid a public outcry, President George H.W. Bush retracted the document, and it was substantially revised.

The original mission of the Wolfowitz Doctrine was not lost, however. In 1997, William Kristol and Robert Kagan founded The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a nongovernment political action organization that sought to develop and advocate for the militant, geopolitical tenets contained in the Wolfowitz Doctrine. PNAC’s original members included Wolfowitz, Cheney, Khalilzad, Libby, John Bolton, Elliott Abrams, Donald Rumsfeld, William J. Bennett, and other soon-to-be high officers in the Bush administration.

McCain’s Ties to PNAC

John McCain’s connection to PNAC can be traced back to before its formation in 1997. In fact, he was president of the New Citizenship Project, founded by Kristol in 1994. This organization was parent to PNAC, and served as its chief fundraising organ.

McCain also worked cooperatively with PNAC and Wolfowitz in attempting to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. In 1998, he co-sponsored the Iraq Liberation Act—drafted by PNAC—which decreed “regime change” in Iraq to be U.S. policy, and which appropriated $97 million in U.S. military aid to the Iraqi National Congress (INC). The INC was a group of anti-Hussein Iraqi militants whose purpose was to instigate a national uprising against Hussein. It was led by Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi informant whose subsequent faulty intelligence—claims that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaida—was used to sell the Iraq war to the American public. In 2004, in response to accusations that he deliberately misled U.S. intelligence agencies, Chalabi glibly stated, “We are heroes in error.”

McCain also was co-chair (with Sen. Joseph Lieberman) of The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI). Established by PNAC in late 2002, this committee continued to finance Chalabi’s INC with millions of taxpayer dollars, until shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, when it was discontinued. In 2004, McCain became a signatory of PNAC, ironically signing on to a PNAC letter condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy for its return to the “rhetoric of militarism and empire.”

McCain has accordingly been a foot soldier for PNAC from its inception, and, although this organization is no longer in existence, its ideology and its signatories (many of whom now serve as advisers to the McCain presidential campaign) are still very much active.
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080612_john_mccains_chilling_project_for_america/

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Original 25 PNAC signatories



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

Lewis "Scooter" Libby

Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle

Peter W. Rodman

Stephen P. Rosen

Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld

Vin Weber

George Weigel

Paul Wolfowitz



Additional PNAC Signatories



Morton Abramowitz

Gordon Adams

Ken Adelman

Urban Ahlin

Madeleine K. Albright

Richard V. Allen

Giuliano Amato

Mark A. Anderson

Uzi Arad

Richard L. Armitage

Timothy Garton Ash

Anders Aslund

Ronald Asmus

Andrew Y. Au

Maureen Aung-Thwin

Nina Bang-Jensen

Rafael L. Bardaji

Carolyn Bartholomew

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

Arnold Beichman

Peter Beinart

Jeffrey Bell

Jeffrey Bergner

Robert L. Bernstein

George Biddle

Carl Bildt

Daniel Blumenthal

John Bolton

Max Boot

Ellen Bork

Rudy Boshwitz

Pascal Bruckner

Mark Brzezinski

William F. Buckley, Jr

Reinhard Buetikofer

Janusz Bugajski

Michael Butler

Martin Butora

Daniele Capezzone

Per Carlsen

Gunilla Carlsson

Frank Carlucci

Linda Chavez

Steven C. Clemons

Seth Cropsey

Ivo H. Daalder

Helle Dale

Massimo D'Alema

Dennis DConcini

Pavol Demes

Larry Diamond

Peter Dimitrov

James Dobbins

Thomas Donnelly

Nicholas Eberstadt

Robert Edgar

Uffe Elleman-Jensen

Amitai Etzioni

Jeffrey L. Fiedler

Lee Feinstein

Edwin J. Feulner, Jr.

Michele Flournoy

Hillel Fradkin

Aaron Friedberg

Frank Gaffney

Peter Galbraith

Jeffrey Gedmin

Sam Gejdenson

Robert S. Gelbard

Reuel Marc Gerecht

Bronislaw Geremek

Carl Gershmann

Marc Ginsberg

Lt. Gen. Buster C. Glosson (USAF, retired)

Andre Glucksmann

Merle Goldman

Philip Gordon

Daniel Goure

Karl-Theodor von und zu Guttenberg

Istvan Gyarmati

Morton Halperin

Pierre Hassner

Vaclav Havel

John Herfferman

Charles Hill

Richard C. Holbrooke

James Hooper

Toomas Ilves

Martin S. Indyk

Bruce P. Jackson

Eli S. Jacobs

Michael Joyce

Frederick Kagan

Robert Kagan

Max M. Kampelman

Adrian Karatnycky

Penn Kemble

Craig Kennedy

Paul Kennedy

Glenys Kinnock

Col. Robert Killebrew (USA, retired)

Lane Kirklan

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

Harold Hongju Koh

Bernard Kouchner

Peter Kovler

Jerzy Kozminski

Louis Kraar

van Krastev

Charles Krauthammer

Girts Valdis Kristovskis

William Kristol

Ludger Kuehnhardt

Mart Laar

Mark Lagon

AnthonyLake

Vytautas Landsbergis

Stephen Larrabee

John Lehman

Lewis E. Lehrman

Mark Leonard

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger

Tod Lindberg

James Lindsay

Perry Link

Bette Bao Lord

Rich Lowry

Connie Mack

Christopher Makins

Tom Malinowski

James Mann

Mary Beth Markey

Yu Mao-chun

Will Marshall

Margarita Mathiopoulos

Clifford May

Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey (USA, retired)

Sen. John McCain

Daniel McKivergan

Michael McFaul

Matteo Mecacci

Mark Medish

Edwin Meese III

Thomas O. Melia

Saah E. Mendelson

Michael Mertes

Ilir Meta

Derek Mitchell

Adam Michnik

Richard Morningstar

Joshua Muravchik

Klaus Naumann

Steven J. Nider

Dietmar Nietan

Wing C. Ng

James O'Brien

Michael O'Hanlon

Janusz Onyszkiewicz

Cem Ozdemir

Mackubin Thomas Owens

Wayne Owens

Can Paker

Mark Palmer

Martin Peretz

Richard Perle

Ralph Peters

Daniel Pipes

Danielle Pletka

Friedbert Pflueger

Norman Podhoretz

John Edward Porter

Florentino Portero

Samantha Ravich

Anusz Reiter

Sophie Richardson

Peter Rodman

Alex Rondos

Jim Rosapepe

Dennis Ross

Kenneth Roth

Jacques Rupnik

Major Gen. Robert H. Scales (USA, retired)

Randy Scheunemann

Gary Schmitt

William Schneider, Jr.

Richard H. Shultz

Sen. Charles Schumer
Walter Slocombe

Henry Sokolski

Stephen J. Solarz

Helmut Sonnenfeldt

James B. Steinberg

Eberhard Sandschneider

Christian Schmidt

Sen. Charles Schummer
Simon Serfaty

Stephen Sestanovich

Sin-Ming Shaw

John Shattuck

Radek Sikorski

Stefano Silvestri

Martin Simecka

Paul Simon

Walter Slocombe

Gary Smith

Abraham Sofaer

James Steinberg

Leonard Sussman

John J. Sweeney

William Howard Taft IV

John Tkacik

Dick Thornburgh

Gry Titley

Helga Flores Trejo

Ed Turner

Ivan Vejvoda

Sasha Vondra

Arthur Waldron

Malcolm Wallop

Cleste Wallander

James Webb

Ruth Wedgood

Richard Weitz

Caspar Weinberger

Kenneth Weinstein

Paul Weyrich

Leon Wieseltier

Chris Williams

Jennifer Windsor

Marshall Wittmann

R. James Woolsey

Minky Worden

Larry Wortzel

Dov Zakheim

Robert B. Zoellick

http://www.king-george.biz/wst_page5.html

...also see:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9341

http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/03/17/mccain-advisers/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/john-mccain-and-the-proje_b_107940.html

[Voice for Peace]

4. Yes.. McCain is another puppet to be used by these folks, I'm afraid.

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if he's been drugged and hyptnotized out of his maverickness... he certainly seems to have transformed somewhat since getting the nomination. Watch out for his VP pick. If elected, McCain might have some serious health problems.

[WritersBlock]

5. Your subject line is sorta harsh. The point was the OP stood up and asked the question of McCain

and now a lot of folks who saw and heard him, but who don't read DU or ThinkProgress or Huffington Post, might have the seeds of awareness growing now because of his actions?

[DutchLiberal]

6. And this is why McCain will be the next president.

The people who put Junior in power will do everything to make sure their agenda is not being wasted. No way they're going to give away the power they now hold to a Democrat. They will lie, cheat, and steal the election again.

[frog92969]

7. Bet on it

And they've seen they can be as blatant as needs be.

[Faryn Balyncd]

8. Does anyone think a focus on 9/11 conspiracy (rather than McCain's SUPPORT OF ENDLESS WAR) may be...

a bit counterproductive?

Are SWING VOTERS going to be attracted by discussions of 9/11 conspiracy?

Are there any 9/11 conspiracy believers considering a vote for McCain?

[happydreams]

9. Kick and R! Keep up the good work. Whenever anyone says "9/11" there

is a predictable negative reaction from the crowds in this and other vids from We are Change. As if on que.

[frog92969]

10. Kick!

Error: You've already recommended that thread.