of course, Mr. Lieberman and Mr. Kyl are free to quote President John F. Kennedy ... I don't appreciate them inferencing him with the intent of the 3rd wave of this organization.
Lieberman is so comfortable around these people - much like he is serving on the Nixon Center Board with Kissinger and others.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030627123835/nixoncenter.org/boardac.htmIt's behavior by people like Joe Lieberman that cause me to not trust the DLC.
"The successful handover of sovereignty to the Iraqi people..."
From what source does the United States get the power to give and take sovereignty, Messrs. Lieberman and Kyl? It wasn't ours to take away. We have no power to give it back. So nice of Messrs. Lieberman/Kyl to fail to mention this; and, other violations of international law.
It's another Neo-Con think tank/advocate group.
1970s: Scoop Jackson was a war hawk.
"The Committee on the Present Danger was an American bi-partisan, conservative, anti-Communist, militarist lobbying group.
The committee first met in 1950, it was founded by
Tracy Vorhees who had served as undersecretary of the United States Army.
It lost influence throughout the 1960s, but it was revived in 1976 when a sub-group, Team B, was set up by Gerald Ford, working out of the offices of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. The sub-group produced the "National Intelligence Estimates" report in 1976, a report countering the existing CIA estimates of Soviet military capacities. It grew in influence following the election of Carter, with Nitze as chairman of policy studies."
The committee provided thirty-three officials of the Reagan administration including William Casey, Richard Allen, Jeane Kirkpatrick Jeane Jordan, John Lehman, George Shultz and Richard Perle.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Committee%20on%20the%20Present%20DangerCommittee on the Present Danger
"The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is a hawkish "advocacy organization" first founded in 1950 and re-formed in 1976 to push for larger defense budgets and arms buildups, to counter the Soviet Union. In June 2004, The Hill reported that a third incarnation of CPD was being planned, to address the War on terrorism. The head of the 2004 CPD, PR pro and former Reagan adviser Peter Hannaford, explained, "we saw a parallel” between the Soviet threat and the threat from terrorism. The message that CPD will convey through lobbying, media work and conferences is that “the war on terror needs to be won,” he said.
Known members of the 2004 CPD include Peter Hannaford, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, former CIA director R. James Woolsey, Jr., and Reagan administration official and 1976 Committee founder Max M. Kampelman. At the July 20 launching of the 2004 CPD, Lieberman and Senator Jon Kyl were identified as the honorary co-chairs. Other notable members listed on the CPD website include Laurie Mylroie, Norman Podhoretz, Frank Gaffney and other associates of
the American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, American-Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Boeing Company.
~more here~
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Committee_on_the_Present_DangerHere's one anti-thesis:
Desperate Neo-Cons Launch Third
`Committee on the Present Danger'
by Michele Steinberg
"It could have been called "The Committee To Blow Up the World." On June 16, for the third time since World War II, the proponents of preventive war launched a massive propaganda campaign using the moniker "The Committee on the Present Danger." The CPD's rebirth took place at a gathering of 80-100 of Washington's leading neo-cons to discuss "Iraq and the War Against Terrorism." The midwife was Clifford May, the president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), which sponsored the event; the leading ideologue was William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard; and the arrival was proudly announced by Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.), who said that the CPD's creation "for the third time," was necessary because "today, in America, support for the
war is in jeopardy" (see EIR, June 25). The piggy-bank for the event, at least in part, was Australian-British media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who owns the publications, and FOX-TV networks, by which most of the speakers are paid.
"There was only one real reason for the gathering: Bush and Cheney are in increasing trouble, and "Super Watergate" is in the air. It was an attempted regroupment by the angry neo-cons, who were trying to recoup their losses after the Administration turned against their chosen Iraqi leader, Ahmed Chalabi, and who were furious that the Administration had returned to the United Nations for a resolution.
"Speakers had a stark message: war, war, more war; and kill, kill, kill more Muslims. And despite overwhelming evidence that this kind of "counter-terrorist" policy is increasing the danger to the United States and to global stability, this gathering said that Dick Cheney's doctrine of preventive war is not being applied hard enough. Throughout the day-long event, one heard a spiel for imperial policy, and a chilling threat: If the Cheney policy is abandoned, there will be another 9/11—this time much worse."
~snip~
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3126cpd_iii.html
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