Partnership for a Secure America launched today...trying to deflect BUSH

[Gloria]

group of diplomatic "heavyweights" who got together in reaction to Bolton....they ran a full page ad in the NYTimes today (see it at the site)which outlines their stances...Gary Hart is involved in this, as is Howard Rudman...

http://www.psaonline.org/


More details in this article from the current WMW:

1//Asia Times Online, Hong Kong Aug 3, 2005

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GH03Aa01.html



REVIVING THE ‘RADICAL CENTER’

By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - As US President George W Bush announced the unprecedented recess appointment of ultra-nationalist John Bolton as his next ambassador to the United Nations, a group of diplomatic heavyweights was preparing to launch a bipartisan coalition to promote a return to a more moderate and multilateral foreign policy.

While the group, which calls itself the Partnership for a Secure America, was not explicitly set up to act to oppose the more radical initiatives of the Bush administration, the chief organizers - both Republicans and Democrats - have sometimes been harshly critical of specific Bush policies, especially the decision to go to war in Iraq and innovative policy initiatives such as the promotion of preemptive war against "rogue states".

The group includes top officials who served in the administrations of presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, such as the two presidents' most durable national security advisers - Samuel Berger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, respectively - as well as former secretary of state Warren Christopher; Clinton's first national security adviser, Anthony Lake; former defense secretary William Perry, and former UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke.

But it also includes leading Republican moderates, some of whom have even served under Bush. They include former senator Howard Baker, who served until last year as Bush's ambassador to Japan, and, even more significantly, his most recent UN ambassador, former senator John Danforth, who, since his resignation, has been uncharacteristically outspoken about his concerns that the Republican Party has increasingly come under the sway of the Christian Right.

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[kansasblue]

1. well. Very good.