PNAC Closing Shop, feeling of "goal accomplished"

The doors may be closing shortly on the nine-year-old Project for a New American Century, the neoconservative think tank headed by William Kristol , former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle and now editor of the Weekly Standard, which is must reading for neocon cogitators and agitators.

The PNAC was short on staff -- having perhaps a half-dozen employees -- but very long on heavy hitters. The founders included Richard B. Cheney , Donald H. Rumsfeld , Paul D. Wolfowitz , Jeb Bush , I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , William J. Bennett, Zalmay Khalilzad and Quayle.
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Despite the happy chatter before the Iraq invasion about cheering crowds and bouquets and cakewalks and how the war was going to pay for itself, the signatories wrote that "we are fully aware of the dangers of implementing this policy."

There had been debate about PNAC's future, but the feeling, a source said, was of "goal accomplished" and it looks to be heading toward closing. Former executive director Gary J. Schmitt , who had been executive director of President Ronald Reagan 's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, left recently for a post at the American Enterprise Institute. (Not a big move. Actually, only five floors up from PNAC.) Still, seems like a short century.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100739.html

I wonder what else they will cook up?

My suggestion on what might be a successor - in the UK: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1407096&mesg_id=1407873

And the media reports that nobody is really going to take advantage of this.

(So why waste time and resources to whittle the right away? There's only one reason. Well, maybe two... three? )

Chaos and instability is certainly good for companies like Halliburton. No bid contracts in a war zone is just sanctioned theft on a scale never before imagined.

they can create more commit more damage to this nation and its constitution.

there's this "war crimes" thing we need to look into...

If those PNAC bozos aren't booking flights to lands without extradition treaties with the US, then we are in real danger of them continuing without even so much as a clue as to their means and motives.

Telling us this crap. As if we believe that they will give up the contracts and what ever other kind of thievery they can pull off. They probably will go to another Bush friendly country to continue their games.

Mission Accomplished!

Pay particular attention to the list of 'Distinguished Advisors' and the Board of Advisors. :wtf:



No so fast, they just changed the name.....


http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1475...

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) has become one of the most prominent and influential in the array of traditionally right-wing and neoconservative think tanks.

In its view, the "major ideological threat to democracies comes from Islamic extremism and rogue states," which are the "leading supporters of terrorism and totalitarianism." Although FDD does not define its own ideology, the positions and philosophy it promotes mirror those of neoconservative ideologues and institutes--with respect to the centrality of Israel,

Republican Party insiders dominate FDD's board, and its president, Clifford May, is the former director of communications for the Republican National Committee (1997-2001) and was the editor of Rising Tide, the party's official magazine. FDD's three board members are Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp, and Jeane Kirkpatrick. As a way to achieve widespread acceptance of its positions on counterterrorism and on Middle East affairs, FDD has two bipartisan advisory groups.

Its four "Distinguished Advisers" are Newt Gingrich, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Louis J. Freeh (former FBI director), and James Woolsey. FDD also has a Board of Advisers, whose members are: Gary Bauer, Donna Brazile, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), Frank Gaffney, Amb. Marc Ginsberg, Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), Charles Jacobs, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Hon. Richard D. Lamm, Richard Perle, Rep. Jim Marshall (D-GA), Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA), and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY).
By: Elucid on June 12, 2006 at 10:48am

-chef-

The shape-shifters, damn them, aren't done with us.

Now it all makes sense. Every time she's on those talking head shows she is supposedly delivering the democratic party's message. She always fucks up and makes stupid or wishy washy comments. I just thought she was retarded or incompetent.

She is a neo-con! What the hell is any dem doing on that board? :grr:

revealing.

Unbelievable that there are Democrats on that list. Lieberman?

Now that the Project for a New American Decade has been completely discredited by consequences, the austere membership can go back to dissembling separately.

PNAC Closing up shop.....because it succeeded....YEAH RIGHT. If you had a diabolical scheme to control the world, and you only made it to bus stop #1, would you call that "Goal accomplished"?

These guys were as ambitious as they were aggressive. They had everything planned out.....the US would be the 'Benevolent Dictator' of the world, controlling every damn country and annihilating the ones who wouldn't go along with the script.

Make no mistake, these guys struggled for about 20 years to finally rule the world. They worked on Poppy, Clinton, to no avail. They struck gold with George though.
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What you are really seeing is a ship that's taking on water. You look at the railing. Suddenly, there's a whole bunch of rats, sitting there trying to save themselves. They crawled out of the brig.

= the PNAC

Look at the members!

http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/

You know... you're thinking it too. It wasn't goal accomplished. What's the missing word here? Huh? They should just drop the other shoe and say "heck of a job, Bushie!"