HomeLatest ThreadsGreatest ThreadsForums & GroupsMy SubscriptionsMy Posts
DU Home » Latest Threads » Forums & Groups » Retired » Retired Forums » 2016 Postmortem (Forum) » "Warning: Mitt Romne...

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 02:37 PM

"Warning: Mitt Romney's Advisers Are George Bush Neocons Calling for War With Iran "

In 1998, a group of foreign policy gurus signed a letter to then-President Bill Clinton requesting that he launch a war against Iraq without regard for the United Nations Security Council, or any type of due process, to quell what they believed to be a clear and present danger to Israel, the United States, and its Middle Eastern allies. Clinton ignored this letter. Then in 2001, nine days after September 11th, this same group, now under the name “Project for a New American Century (PNAC),” signed a similar letter to a much more compliant president, George W. Bush.

Start with Mitt Romney’s foreign policy team. Fifteen of the 22 members were policy advisers under the George W. Bush administration, and six of them are former members of PNAC. Romney's foreign policy white paper, ironically (or purposefully) titled “An American Century,” uses the same rhetoric used by PNAC and Bush-era ground pounders: It promotes American exceptionalism, force projection, and retaking control of the global landscape with seemingly little zest for earnest diplomacy. This makes sense since the report is authored by Romney's foreign policy team, complete with a foreword by Eliot Cohen himself. It is no wonder that Romney is overly hawkish on the Iranian “threat,” since the neocons owe Israel — big time.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/3662/warning-mitt-romney-s-advisers-are-george-bush-neocons-calling-for-war-with-iran


I've seen this information before, but it deserves wider attention.

4 replies, 4137 views

Reply to this thread

Back to top Alert abuse

Always highlight: 10 newest replies | Replies posted after I mark a forum
Replies to this discussion thread
Arrow 4 replies Author Time Post
Reply "Warning: Mitt Romney's Advisers Are George Bush Neocons Calling for War With Iran " (Original post)
hedgehog Apr 2012 OP
Politicalboi Apr 2012 #1
hedgehog Apr 2012 #2
Can I Come Home Apr 2012 #3
dixiegrrrrl Apr 2012 #4

Response to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 02:58 PM

1. If Jeb is Rmoney pick for VP

 

PNAC should be EVERY question Jeb gets.

Reply to this post

Back to top Alert abuse Link here Permalink


Response to Politicalboi (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 03:37 PM

2. One way or anther, people have to be told that Romney is the Return of the BFEE!

Reply to this post

Back to top Alert abuse Link here Permalink


Response to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 03:56 PM

3. Professor Wolfowitz wrote PNAC's Agenda

 

Not General, or Colonel, or even Private. It's so very easy to advocate war from a desk! (Janeane Garofalo said this many years ago.)

Reply to this post

Back to top Alert abuse Link here Permalink


Response to hedgehog (Original post)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 08:07 PM

4. *shudder*

"Just when you think it is safe, they reach out and pull you back in"

Harder to kill than cockroaches.

Reply to this post

Back to top Alert abuse Link here Permalink

Reply to this thread