Neocons Revive Cold War Group - Committee on the Present Danger

[The Crazy Canadian]

There web site: http://www.fightingterror.org/

http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=3075

Neocons Revive Cold War Group

by Jim Lobe
A bipartisan group of 41 mainly neoconservative foreign-policy hawks has launched the third Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) whose previous two incarnations mobilized public support for rolling back Soviet-led communism but whose new enemy will be "global terrorism."

The new group, announced at a Capitol Hill press conference Tuesday, said its "single mission" will be to "advocate policies intended to win the war on global terrorism – terrorism carried out by radical Islamists opposed to freedom and democracy."

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Are these guys really going to say anything different from what we've already heard from such groups as PNAC, AEI, National Review and the Weekly Standard? I guess in the "war of ideas", it doesn't hurt having a bunch of organizations pushing the same bull shit.

[RobertSeattle]

1. All Fear, All The Time (And we can make a buck too...)

Where's an FDR When we need one?

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-- everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere in the world.
--President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress, January 6, 1941

[Ann Arbor Dem]

2. Gee...guess who is an honorary co-chairman of the CPD...

Yep...none other than Joe Lieberman.

http://www.fightingterror.org/

Some of the other members:

Peter Brookes (Senior Fellow, the Heritage Foundation)
Charles M. Kupperman ( VP, Strategic Integration and Operations, Missile Defense Systems, The Boeing Company)
Jeanne Kirkpatrick
Jack Kemp
Edwin Meese
Laurie Mylroie

[peacetalksforall]

3. So you go to the site and guess who you see.....

Jon Kyl...............Republican
Joe Leiberman.........Democrat (so-called)
James Woolsey.........Republican (and the call him Hon.)

Think about it - Joe L.

Then when you check on members....

Peter Brookes
Henry Cooper
Midge Decter
Rachel Ehrenfeld
Victory Hanson
Laurie Myiroie
Joshua Muravchik
James A. Phillips
Michael Rubin
Sol W. Sanders
Steven J. Solarz

And my unfavorites, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Edwin Meese, and Norman Podhertz.

Then you click on the sources for their articles and writings and you get National Review, American Enterprise Institute, and the Heritage Founation with more unfavorites Chrles Krauthammer, Michael Ludeen, Gaffney, J Goldbert, Lowry.

I have many new people to learn about.

[midwayer]

5. Apparently

on June 16 in DC about 80-100 neocons gathered at a launching event funded, in part, by Ruppert Murdoch

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"

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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.

I won't post a link where I found this due to DU's views and others regarding just where I found this.

You can figure it out

[midwayer]

6. more tidbits

Perversely, these neo-cons believe that another 9/11 attack will help their cause. Perhaps the biggest "present danger" they fear is that their forces—especially Vice President Cheney—will be ousted from power. Kristol and May complained that the Administration—under pressure of the 2004 election campaign—was backing off in Iraq, trying to substitute "stability" for victory. May claimed that the word is out in the Bush-Cheney campaign to keep Iraq "quiet" through Nov. 4. They blamed this policy shift on unnamed advisors, and CIA leaks.

[midwayer]

7. How do you like those apples! (eom)

[The Crazy Canadian]

8. Neocons will be hit hard if Bush is kicked out in Nov.2

Neocons are going to go full blast from now until Nov.2. But i think for the most part, because the Iraq adventure isn't turning out to good, that the neocons are done for.

[Spinzonner]

4. Look at the Upside of this

having them together makes it easier to throw a net over them.