Giuliani names chief Neo-con Norman "bomb Iran" Podhoretz to foreign policy team

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http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/giuliani_names_foreign_policy.html#more

Rudy Giuliani just announced his campaign’s foreign policy team, which includes one of the founders of the neo-conservative movement – Norman Podhoretz – a man who just weeks ago advocated bombing Iran to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons.

It’s not surprising that Giuliani would pick hawkish foreign policy advisers. But in choosing Podhoretz, he’s embracing a key proponent of what has become a largely discredited movement in Washington. It was neo-conservatives who pushed hard for the war in Iraq – think former Pentagon officials Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith – and right now, President George Bush is paying the price politically.

And even Giuliani has never flat-out pushed for bombing Iran, though he’s certainly left open the possibility. But Podhoretz’s influence might explain Rudy’s recently stepped-up anti-Iran language, such as when he said in Jacksonville Saturday, "No way, no how should Iran be a nuclear power."

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The eight-member team also includes people involved with the Hoover Institution, a conservative think-tank, and some with direct experience in Israeli affairs. Those include chief foreign policy adviser Charles Hill of Hoover, who once served as the political counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv; Martin Kramer of Harvard University, an expert on Islam who is a fellow at the pro-Israel think-tank Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and Peter Berkowitz of Hoover, who co-founded the Israel Program on Constitutional Government.

[babylonsister]

1. Oy vey! nt

[spanone]

2. Giuliani is the only dope that may be more dangerous than junior......maybe

[some guy]

3. Podhoretz is an oriinal PNAC guy.

I'm sure Rudy embracing the failed Bush-fronted PNAC agenda will help him in the polls.

[wordpix]

4. when will MSM start talking about Ghouli's role in the 911 first responders' cough?

The guy constantly gets a free pass for being mayor on 911 and not flying off to some AF base like King Gorge did.

[saltpoint]

5. The higher the profile Giuliani takes, the less voters will

like what they see.

For my part, I'm seeing a thick-skulled, thin-skinned tyrant bully whose current wife used to torture dogs. Or whatever she did.

Recent polls in New York City indicate that New Yorkers prefer Bloomberg to Giuliani as mayor. I don't blame 'em one bit. I think GOP primary voters are going to decide that national health care and education are better than bullying the terrorists with a bullhorn, and I think they're going to give Rudy the boot.

[KoKo]

6. Ha! Rudy is known for picking Corrupt Advisors Kerik, Druggie Ravenel,

Vickers who just loves his stuff "on the side" and a host of other low lifes he just "hangs" with.

Picking Podhoretz is just another one of his fatal mistakes. He really is an arrogant SOB to keep sticking his foot in it time after time. He suffers from "Bush Syndrome." :puke:

[BlooInBloo]

7. Makes perfect sense. Cokehead SC chairman, adulterous hypocrite southern chair....

... Bomb em all & let god sort it out for foreign policy.

I fail to see what's out of "character" about this.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Julie sure can pick 'em

We've got drugs. We've got prostitution.
What else we got ?