How neo-cons influence the Pentagon ...

[Ripley]

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WASHINGTON - An ad hoc office under US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith appears to have acted as the key base for an informal network of mostly neo-conservative political appointees that circumvented normal inter-agency channels to lead the push for war against Iraq.

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Asia Times Online has some of the best analysis of our government. It is so disheartening that our USA journalists can't or won't do the job.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH08Ak01.html

Oh how the PNACers like Perle (unelected) have power in our country is frightening....

[Ripley]

1. AEI connection.

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"Rather than working with the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, its Near Eastern Affairs bureau, or even its Iraq desk, for example, they preferred to work through Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security (and former AEI executive vice president) John Bolton; Michael Wurmser (another Perle protege at AEI who staffed the predecessor to OSP); and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of the Vice President Dick Cheney"

These unelected folks should NOT DETERMINE American foreign policy, IMHO!!