Iraq war propagandist Ari Fleischer spinning Iran as a direct threat to U.S. security

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Big Coffers and Rising Voice at Conservative Group

By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: September 30, 2007

Freedom’s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former senior White House officials, made an audacious debut in late August when it began a $15 million advertising campaign designed to maintain Congressional support for President Bush’s troop increase in Iraq.

Founded this summer by a dozen wealthy conservatives, the nonprofit group is set apart from most advocacy groups by the immense wealth of its core group of benefactors, its intention to far outspend its rivals and its ambition to pursue a wide-ranging agenda. Its next target: Iran policy.

Next month, Freedom’s Watch will sponsor a private forum of 20 experts on radical Islam that is expected to make the case that Iran poses a direct threat to the security of the United States, according to several benefactors of the group.

Although the group declined to identify the experts, several were invited from the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington research group with close ties to the White House. Some institute scholars have advocated a more confrontational policy to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, including keeping military action as an option.

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[Gman]

1. PNAC started with 20 or so

so-called "experts".

[Emit]

2. Good thread on same topic here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1941046&mesg_id=1941046

But the more exposure the better -- important topic, IMO.

[Trajan]

3. They promote Freedom's Watch as a counterpoint to Move On

Yet it is nothing of the sort.

Move On was PURELY grassroots, and was born of the frustrations of many MILLIONS of american citizens .... Freedom's Watch was born on the huge bankrolls of a few extreme right wing billionaires ....

Freedom's Watch is nothing but a bunch of cheerleaders for a bullshit war THEY promulgated with lies and misdirection .... The AEI produced the PNAC, the OSP, and the primary cause of the nonsensical 'strategy' used to fight in Iraq: a strategy based on lies and self deception that has cost millions of lives .... Now they reconstitute themselves as 'Freedom's Watch' ....

AEI ? .... PNAC ? .... Freedom's Watch ? ..... SAME ASSHOLES ! ....

THEY should be hung from the same yardarm that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz should be hung from .... They do our nation AND our military a disservice by even trying to bring 'honor' to their cause .... They were dishonorable 4 years ago ..... They are dishonorable now ...

I read something today from their leadership: They say that Iran's leader could be stopped from destroying the US and Israel, like Hitler should have been stopped before he wreaked havoc in Europe .... Yet it is well known that the right wing corporatists of the 20's and 30's formed a similar group then who SUPPORTED the Nazis : Among them was one Mr. Walker, and Prescott Bush, family members of the current ASSHOLE in the White House ....

Their ilk ALWAYS supports repression against the common citizens of the world: It is right to be wary of Iran (in my view) .... Yet these miscreants are the LAST group that should be calling the shots ....

Freedom's Watch should be hung with a bright shiny "I AM THE PNAC" emblem on their metaphorical necks .... and revealed to the world, and the nation, as they backstabbing assholes they really are ....

[ProSense]

4. Exactly! n/t

[ProSense]

5. Kick! n/t