the Henry Jackson Society (british version)

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Cameron is no chum of Bush - and the president is unlikely to alienate Blair by getting too cosy with him now - but the parallel is not entirely bogus. For one thing, Cameron too is surrounded by ideological neoconservatives, his campaign manager and shadow chancellor George Osborne chief among them. Cameron strongly backed the Iraq war while his allies, Michael Gove and Ed Vaizey, last month founded the Henry Jackson Society, named after the late US senator who is the patron saint of neoconservatism.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1660457,00.html

the Henry Jackson Society site (check signatories and patrons):
http://www-hjs.pet.cam.ac.uk/

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. There's a bit more on them in this thread from the UK forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=191&topic_id=13042&mesg_id=13042

"Iraq was the most far-sighted and noble act of British foreign policy since the founding of NATO."
http://www-hjs.pet.cam.ac.uk/sections/britain_world/document.2005-05-04.8952410566

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2. Patrons

Bruce P. Jackson, President - The Project for Transitional Democracies

Robert Kagan, Senior Associate - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

William Kristol, Editor - The Weekly Standard

Vytautas Landsbergis, Former President of Lithuania

Clifford May, President - Foundation for the Defence of Democracies

Michael McFaul, Senior Fellow - Hoover Institution; Senior Advisor, National Democratic Institute

Joshua Muravchik, Resident Scholar - American Enterprise Institute

Richard Perle, Former American Assistant Secretary of Defence

General Jack Sheehan, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic

James Woolsey, Former Director of the CIA