Doublespeak, an example of the American ideal of waging war to promote peace.

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Lockheed Martin Contributes $1 Million to Endowment of the United States Institute of Peace

Robert J. Stevens, President, Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin, said, "As the world’s leading global security company, we are pleased to support the work of the USIP and its international partners. With thousands of employees supporting peacekeeping, stability operations and capacity building efforts around the world, Lockheed Martin understands the importance of working to prevent conflict and promote peace as vital components of global security."

http://www.usip.org/newsroom/news/lockheed-martin-contributes-1-million-endowment-united-states-institute-peace


The United States Peace Institute will have a forum titled 'The Way Forward in Afghanistan' with guest speaker former Bush national Security Adviser Steven Hadley on what date? Why on December 7 of course.

http://www.usip.org/events/the-way-forward-in-afghanistan

This is just disgusting. This "Peace Institute" is nothing about waging peace, it's about promoting conflict and strife in the so called developing world.

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1. Hadley

Former Lockheed secretary, Bruce Jackson and former Lockheed counsel, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley worked closely together on the Committee to Expand NATO. Jackson was president of this entity, based in the Washington offices of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute; Hadley was its secretary.

The United States spends an estimated $120b a year on its NATO commitment to defend Europe. One of the advocates for the NATO protection scheme was Bruce Jackson, former Vice President for Strategy and Planning at Lockheed Martin. Jackson was the founder and president of the Project on Transitional Democracy, an organization which guided ‘newly independent', former Soviet provinces through the congressional appropriations process to connect the foreign leaders with U.S. tax dollars. His influence led to the acceptance of many of these countries into NATO compliance and membership. The introduction of these former provinces into the NATO resulted in a boon for weapon's manufacturers as the new republics were required to modernize their military forces to comply with NATO defense requirements.

Hadley is also the fluky bungler who took the blame for the insertion of the phony Iraq/Niger uranium charges in the president's State of the Union address, claiming that he ‘forgot' to relay CIA objections.

As early as 2002, Hadley and Condi Rice were engaged in a series of briefings with foreign policy groups, Iraq specialists and other opinion makers that was termed as a "new phase," by a White House spokesman, who described the goal as building fresh public support for Bush administration policy vs. Iraq. Before the invasion and occupation, Hadley spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations in February 2003 about the Future of Iraq project. "If war comes," Hadley said, "it will be a war of liberation, not occupation."

In the fall of 2002 the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (Chairman of the Board, Bruce Jackson, former Vice President for Strategy and Planning at Lockheed Martin), was established in the Washington offices of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute. The CLI engaged in educational and advocacy efforts to mobilize U.S. and international support for policies aimed at ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Members of the CLI met in November of 2002 with President Bush's national security adviser, Condi Rice, in an effort to mount "education and advocacy efforts to mobilize U.S. and international support freeing the Iraqi people from tyranny."

Members of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq included, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, William Kristol, General Barry McCaffrey, and former CIA director James Woolsey. (Woolsey recently proposed the reinstatement of a constitutional monarchy in Iraq, in which a king would appoint the prime minister.)

George Shultz, Amb. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton, and Elliot Abrams were also involved with the group. Abrams and Bolton are founding members of the CLI.

Hadley, who worked closely with the Bush-Cheney campaign as a foreign policy advisor specializing in European and Russian affairs, was a partner in Shea & Gardner, the Washington law firm representing Lockheed Martin, was a member of the Vulcans, an eight-person foreign policy team formed during the Bush campaign that included Condoleezza Rice and Richard Perle, Stephen Hadley, who has been advocating policies for many years which have, to no one's surprise, found their way into the ideological bulldozer which forms the doctrine of the Bush league's foreign policy, wants us to believe that the White House believed the WMD information was credible.

Stephen Hadley, co-wrote a National institute for Public Policy paper portraying a nuclear bunker-buster bomb as an ideal weapon against the nuclear, chemical or biological weapons stockpiles of rouge nations such as Iraq. "Under certain circumstances," the report said, "very severe nuclear threats may be needed to deter any of these potential adversaries."

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2. Holy crap, where did you get that?

Thanks for posting that.

General Barry McCaffrey, the owl-faced goon and NBC's Iraq War pitch man.

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3. It's a collection of info I started gathering in 2003

I wish I had all of the sources at hand, but this is what I broke down for a book I was writing and posted in increments here at DU. It's not surprising to see him pop up again with one of these benign sounding groups with sinister motives. Sad, though.

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4. The USPI is way more than that.

It's essentially the neocons very State Department, It's right across the street from the State Department at a prominent location on the National Mall. Complete with a roof in the shape of a dove, the building is named for the globalist former Reagan Sec. of State, George Schultz.

I guarantee Hadley will be either Defense Secretary or Secretary of State under the next Republican regime.

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5. "Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity" - G. Carlin