Cross Posted at Crooks and Liars

From The Project For New American Century’s Website: Their statement of principles:

The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; and that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle.

The Project for the New American Century intends, through issue briefs, research papers, advocacy journalism, conferences, and seminars, to explain what American world leadership entails. It will also strive to rally support for a vigorous and principled policy of American international involvement and to stimulate useful public debate on foreign and defense policy and America’s role in the world.

William Kristol, Chairman

Bill Moyers explains most of it in this video: Download file

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During a C-SPAN appearance this morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol was confronted by a military wife living in Ft. Hood, TX, who called in to criticize him for “pushing the war.”

The woman explained the incredible stress of having her husband deployed in Iraq:

I-m sure when your head hits the pillow you have a luxury of dreaming about anything that your mind will allow you to dream about… I sleep with the phone under the pillow. My kids - if someone rings the doorbell, instead of normal kids they freeze. And they-re in elementary school. You all don-t understand. We are military people but we are people, too. And the stress that we are under is tremendous.

While she spoke, Kristol appeared uncomfortable, looking downward and scratching markings into a piece of paper.

The caller also told Kristol that he was a “liar” for claiming that it’s “mostly the insurgents attacking us,” versus members of the Iraqi population. “They don-t want us there,” she said. “I understand you truly believe what you-re saying but it’s not working. We can-t want it for them more than they want it for themselves.”

Kristol offered little in response, using the caller’s criticism of the stress she’s under to advocate for a larger Army. He concluded, “The strains on family life are obviously very real…and I hope we do more to deal with that.”

See Kristol Video and remainder of story at Think Progress

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I’m getting my daily dose of Washington Journal on C-Span this morning. And I’m wondering why this blowhole, Frederick Kagan, is even given a voice. One of the signatories of PNAC’s manifesto, why on earth would anyone give a flying crap what this guy has to say? Well, I guess Bush does, because I think the AEI report on Iraq, which this whacko authored, Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq is where Bush came up with his new way forward. This is part of Bush’s media blitz to promote his escalation of this war. And there’s C-Span, right on the bandwagon.

So impeachment is off the table, we have a whacko in the White House who will continue to listen to these neocon whackos and allow them to guide his policy decisions and the American people are fucked again. Somebody make it stop…….. Paaaalease.

Update: 9:40 a.m. Someone at Ameriblog just gave me the link to this, Jesus General’s letter to Kagan. Guess I’m not the only one with these thoughts…..

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This is a must read! I was told by G that I need to tell everyone he heard about this on the Randi Rhodes show on the way home from work. (his cargirlfriend). She does have a great website and I do like her message boards.

by R.W. Behan

George W. Bush, who proudly claimed the mantle of “war president,” was keenly rebuked in the recent mid-term election. The event was notable, but it merely continued the surreal politics of premeditated war-a politics that has dominated the last six bizarre, hideous years of our nation’s history.

Two elements of the repudiation seem unreal, indeed. Not the fact of it, but the amazing length of its gestation period-those six years-and how tepid it was. Given the documented record of the Bush Administration-lying us into war, torturing prisoners, rewarding cronies with no-bid contracts, spying secretly on the nation’s citizens, selling public policy to Jack Abramoff’s clients, stating even their intent to ignore laws with dozens of “signing statements”-one would expect the political about-face to have occurred far sooner, and the protest to have been a firestorm. Bush loyalists in Congress (and George Bush) should have been turned out angrily and en masse two years ago.

The victorious Democrats- response was even more surprising, and also unreal. “Impeachment is off the table” quickly became the mantra: let us instead proceed with raising the minimum wage. Apparently the Bush Administration’s record is flawless, showing nothing remotely approaching a high crime or a misdemeanor. Impeachment would be a “waste of time.”

Continue reading at CommonDreams

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WASHINGTON (CNN)

A former communications director for Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, will head Sen. Joe Lieberman’s press shop, the Connecticut senator announced Tuesday.

Marshall Wittmann, formerly a senior fellow at the Democratic Leadership Council, will become Lieberman’s new communications director. He held the same position with McCain before joining the DLC and previously held leadership posts with the Christian Coalition and Heritage Foundation.

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This isn’t a big story and I post it mainly to have the subject of McCain up so I can restate a prediction I made months ago:
Citing health concerns, Cheney will resign as VP before the end of the year or shortly afterwards and he will be replaced by McCain, who will then run for Prez as an incumbant.
Mark my words.

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Too late Perle……you planned it, you promoted it……. you can’t change that you evil greedy pig. May the hundreds of thousands of dead haunt you the rest of your days!

And my brother has a little message for you shithead:

You wanted the oil, you got it, now crawl back into your think tank and shut the fuck up. How you have the balls to open your piehole now is beyond me. As I said before, the incompetent people implementing and executing YOUR PLAN only proved to emphasize its flaws, not create them. It’s your plan and you’re not going to BS your way out of it now. Eat shit and die, I’ve had enough of your lies.

AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A leading conservative proponent of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq now says dysfunction within the Bush administration has turned U.S. policy there into a disaster. Richard Perle, who chaired a committee of Pentagon policy advisers early in the Bush administration, said had he seen at the start of the war in 2003 where it would go, he probably would not have advocated an invasion to depose Saddam Hussein. Perle was an assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan.

“I probably would have said, ‘Let’s consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists,”’ he told Vanity Fair magazine in its upcoming January issue.

More at the Guardian

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PNAC PROJECT DIRECTORS
William Kristol, Chairman
Robert Kagag
Bruce P Jackson
Mark Gerson
Randy Scheunemann

PROJECT STAFF
Ellen Bork, Acting Executive Director
Gary Schmitt, Senior Fellow
Thomas Donnelly, Senior Fellow
Ruel Marc Gerecht, Senior Fellow, Director of Mid-East Initiative
Timothy Lehmann, Assistant Director
Michael Goldfarb, Research Associate

MEMBERS
Elliott Abrams
Gary Bauer
William J Bennett
Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney
Eliot A Cohen
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukutama
Frank Gaffney
Fred C Ikle
Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
Lewis Libby
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Peter W Rodman
Steven P Rosen
Hanry S Rowan
Donald Rumsfeld
Vin Weber
George Weigel
Paul Wolfowitz

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‘An Ideology Packs It In’

In America at present, a completely un-American debate is germinating: Is it time for neo-conservatism’s obituary?

If political theories have an address, the address of neo-conservatism reads 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC. There on the fifth floor in rather ordinary-looking offices reside a half dozen right-wing intellectuals, who supply a steady stream of arguments for the propagation of democracy and a world dominated by America. The little club is called The Project for the New American Century . In 1997 nearly every important American neoconservative signed the club’s founding charter. The thinking that evolved here then circulated amongst a group of friendly think tanks. With the election of George Bush to the presidency and especially after 9/11, the significance of the think tank increased, even if the staff size remained small. Neo-conservatism was a dominant force in American foreign policy, and the network of friends had become a network of power.

Now, nine years later, the Project for the New American Century is closing - due to a shortage of funds, it is said. Those that remain there are looking for work. Their ranks are thinning. The New American Century has taken too long to arrive. An ideology is packed up and in moving crates. One couldn-t have a sight more pregnant with symbolism.

DELIGHTFUL STORY HERE!

If your would like to tell these m’fers Goodbye and Good Riddance
here’s where to do it.

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