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| − | The '''Project for the New American Century''' (PNAC) is a neo-conservative think tank with strong ties to the [[American Enterprise Institute]]. PNAC's web site says it was "established in the spring of 1997" as "a non-profit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership."
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| − | PNAC's policy document, "[http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf Rebuilding America's Defences]," openly advocates for total global military domination. Many PNAC members hold highest-level positions in the George W. Bush administration.
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| − | The Project is an initiative of the [[New Citizenship Project]].
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| − | == History ==
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| − | The PNAC was [http://www.newamericancentury.org/robertkaganbio.htm co-founded] by [[William Kristol]] and [[Robert Kagan]] in 1997, [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/etc/cron.html with roots in the 1992 Pentagon]. PNAC's original 25 signatories were an eclectic mix of academics and conservative politicians, several of whom have subsequently found positions in the presidential administration of George W. Bush. PNAC is noteworthy for its focus on [[Iraq]], a preoccupation that began before Bush became president and predates the [[terrorist]] attacks of September 11, 2001. In 1998, the group wrote a [http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm letter] to President [[Bill Clinton]], Mississippi Senator [[Trent Lott]] (then Senate Majority Leader) and [[Newt Gingrich]] (then Speaker of the House of Representatives), demanding a harder line against Iraq. By then, the group had grown in numbers, adding individuals such as former Reagan-era U.N. Ambassador [[Jeane J. Kirkpatrick]], and long-time Washington cold warrior/pro-Likud [[Richard N. Perle]].
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| − | According to [[William Rivers Pitt]]:
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| − | "Two events brought PNAC into the mainstream of American government: the disputed election of George W. Bush and the attacks of September 11th. When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy."<ref>[http://truthout.org/docs_02/022203A.htm]</ref>
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| − | Several original PNAC members, including Richard Bruce Dick Cheney, Zalmay Khalilzad| and the Bush family, have ties to the oil industry. Many other members have been long-time fixtures in the U.S. military establishment or Cold War "strategic studies," including [[Elliott Abrams]], [[Dick Cheney]], [[Paula Dobriansky]], [[Aaron Friedberg]], [[Frank Gaffney]], [[Fred C. Ikle]], [[Peter W. Rodman]], [[Stephen P. Rosen]], [[Henry S. Rowen]], [[Donald H. Rumsfeld]], [[John R. Bolton]], [[Vin Weber]], and [[Paul Dundes Wolfowitz]]. It should not be surprising, therefore, that while the group devotes inordinate attention to Iraq, its most general focus has been on a need to "re-arm America." The prospect of mining oil riches may explain part of the group's focus on Iraq, but this motivation has been buried under the rhetoric of national security and the need for strong national defense.
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| − | To justify a need to "rearm" the country, however, reasons must be found. In the more peaceable world of the late 1990s, with no rival super-power in sight, Iraq and "ballistic missile defense" against "rogue states" were the main games in town. The group's links to advocacy for ballistic missile defense came through Donald Rumsfeld, who in 1998 chaired a bi-partisan commission on the "US Ballistic Missile Threat" and Vin Weber, a
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| − | registered lobbyist for [[Lockheed Martin]] and other Fortune 500 companies.
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| − | According to a February 27, 2003, editorial by William Rivers Pitt, PNAC
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| − | :has been agitating since its inception for a war with Iraq. PNAC was the driving force behind the drafting and passage of the [[Iraqi Liberation Act]], a bill that painted a veneer of legality over the ultimate designs behind such a conflict. The names of every prominent PNAC member were on a [http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm letter] delivered to President Clinton in 1998 which castigated him for not implementing the Act by driving troops into Baghdad.
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| − | :PNAC has funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to a Hussein opposition group called the [[Iraqi National Congress]], and to Iraq's heir-apparent, [[Ahmed Chalabi]], despite the fact that Chalabi was sentenced in absentia by a Jordanian court to 22 years in prison on 31 counts of bank fraud. Chalabi and the INC have, over the years, gathered support for their cause by promising oil contracts to anyone that would help to put them in power in Iraq.
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| − | :Most recently, PNAC created a new group called the [[Committee for the Liberation of Iraq]]. Staffed entirely by PNAC members, The Committee has set out to "educate" Americans via cable news connections about the need for war in Iraq. This group met recently with National Security Advisor [[Condoleezza Rice]] regarding the ways and means of this education. ...
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| − | :The Project for the New American Century seeks to establish what they call '[[Pax Americana]]' across the globe. Essentially, their goal is to transform America, the sole remaining superpower, into a planetary empire by force of arms. A report released by PNAC in September of 2000 entitled '[http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf Rebuilding America's Defenses]' codifies this plan, which requires a massive increase in defense spending and the fighting of several major theater wars in order to establish American dominance. The first has been achieved in Bush's new budget plan, which calls for the exact dollar amount to be spent on defense that was requested by PNAC in 2000. Arrangements are underway for the fighting of the wars.<ref>[http://truthout.org/docs_03/022803A.shtml]</ref>
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| − | == Key Positions ==
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| − | Among the key conclusions of PNAC's defense strategy document (''Rebuilding America's Defenses'') were the following <ref>[http://www.fpif.org/papers/02men/box1_body.html]</ref>:
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| − | * "Develop and deploy global missile defenses to defend the American homeland and American allies, and to provide a secure basis for U.S. power projection around the world."
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| − | * "Control the new 'international commons' of space and '[[cyberspace]],' and pave the way for the creation of a new military service--U.S. Space Forces--with the mission of space control."
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| − | * "Increase defense spending, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually."
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| − | * "Exploit the '[[revolution in military affairs]]' [transformation to high-tech, unmanned weaponry] to insure the long-term superiority of U.S. conventional forces."
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| − | * "Need to develop a new family of [[nuclear weapons]] designed to address new sets of military requirements" complaining that the U.S. has "virtually ceased development of safer and more effective nuclear weapons."
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| − | * "Facing up to the realities of multiple constabulary missions that will require a permanent allocation of U.S. forces."
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| − | * "America must defend its homeland" by "reconfiguring its nuclear force" and by missile defense systems that "counteract the effects of the proliferation of ballistic missiles and [[weapons of mass destruction]]."
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| − | * "Need for a larger U.S. security perimeter" and the U.S. "should seek to establish a network of 'deployment bases' or 'forward operating bases' to increase the reach of current and future forces," citing the need to move beyond Western Europe and Northeast Asia to increased permanent military presence in Southeast Asia and "other regions of East Asia." Necessary "to cope with the rise of [[China]] to great-power status."
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| − | * Redirecting the U.S. Air Force to move "toward a global first-strike force."
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| − | * End the [[Clinton administration]]'s "devotion" to the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
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| − | * "[[North Korea]], [[Iran]], Iraq, or similar states [should not be allowed] to undermine American leadership, intimidate American allies, or threaten the American homeland itself."
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| − | * "Main military missions" necessary to "preserve Pax Americana" and a "unipolar 21st century" are the following: "secure and expand zones of democratic peace, deter rise of new great-power competitor, defend key regions (Europe, East Asia, Middle East), and exploit transformation of war."
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| − | According to the PNAC report, "The American peace has proven itself peaceful, stable, and durable. Yet no moment in international politics can be frozen in time: even a global Pax Americana will not preserve itself." To preserve this "American peace" through the 21st century, the PNAC report concludes that the global order "must have a secure foundation on unquestioned U.S. military preeminence." The report struck a prescient note when it observed that "the process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor."
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| − | Many of PNAC's conclusions and recommendations are reflected in the White House's [[National Security Strategy]] document of September 2002, which reflects the "peace through strength" credo that shapes PNAC strategic thinking.
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| − | == Personnel ==
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| − | === Original 25 signatories were: ===
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| − | *[[Elliott Abrams]]
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| − | *[[Gary Bauer]]
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| − | *[[William J. Bennett]], who served during the Reagan and first Bush administrations as U.S. Secretary of Education and Drug Czar. Upon leaving government office, Bennett became a "distinguished fellow" at the conservative [[Heritage Foundation]], co-founded [[Empower America]], and established himself as a self-proclaimed expert on morality with his authorship of [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0671683063/thecenterformediA ''The Book of Virtues''].
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| − | *[[Jeb Bush]], the son of former President George H. W. Bush and brother of current President George W. Bush. At the time of PNAC's founding, Jeb Bush was a candidate for the Florida governor's seat, a position which he currently holds.
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| − | *[[Richard Bruce Dick Cheney|Dick Cheney]], the former White House Chief of Staff to [[Gerald R. Ford]], six-term Congressman, and Secretary of Defense to the first President Bush, was serving as president of the oil-services giant [[Halliburton Company]] at the time of PNAC's founding. He subsequently became U.S. vice president under George W. Bush.
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| − | *[[Eliot A. Cohen]]
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| − | *[[Paula Dobriansky]]
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| − | *[[Steve Forbes]], publisher, billionaire, and Republican presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000. Forbes has also campaigned actively on behalf of the "flat tax," which would reduce the federal tax burden for wealthy individuals like himself.
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| − | *[[Aaron Friedberg]], professor of politics and international affairs; Director, [[Center of International Studies]]; Director, Research Program in International Security, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.
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| − | *[[Francis Fukuyama]], author of [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0380720027/thecenterformediA ''The End of History and the Last Man'']; Dean of the Faculty and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the [[Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies]] (SAIS) at [[Johns Hopkins University]]. Appointed to the [[President's Council on Bioethics]] by George W. Bush, January 2002.
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| − | *[[Frank Gaffney]]
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| − | *[[Fred C. Ikle]], "distinguished scholar" at the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]
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| − | *[[Donald Kagan]], professor of history and classics at Yale University and the author of books including ''While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today''; ''A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990''; and ''The Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace.'' Kagan is also a senior associate at the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]], a contributing editor at the [[Weekly Standard]] and a Washington Post columnist, a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and the Alexander Hamilton fellow in American diplomatic history at American University. Past experience includes: Deputy for Policy in the State Department's Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1985-1988); State Department's Policy Planning Staff member (1984-1985); speechwriter to Secretary of State [[George P. Shultz]] (1984-1985); foreign policy advisor to Congressman [[Jack Kemp]] (1983); Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the [[United States Information Agency]] (1983); Assistant Editor at the [[Public Interest]] (1981).
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| − | *[[Zalmay Khalilzad]], an Afghan-American who was the only Muslim among the group's original signatories and the only signatory who was not a native-born U.S. citizen. Khalilzad has became the Bush administration's special envoy to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban as well as is special envoy to the Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein. Khalilzad has written about information warfare, and in 1996 (in pre-Taliban days), he served as a consultant to the oil company Unocal Corporation (UNOCAL) regarding a "risk analysis" for its proposed pipeline project through Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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| − | *[[William Kristol]]
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| − | *[[I. Lewis Scooter Libby]]
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| − | *[[Norman Podhoretz]]
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| − | *[[J. Danforth Quayle]], former vice president under President George Herbert Walker Bush and a presidential candidate himself in 1996.
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| − | *[[Peter W. Rodman]], who served in the State Department and the National Security Council under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush, became the current Bush administration's Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security affairs in 2001.
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| − | *[[Stephen P. Rosen]], Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University.
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| − | *[[Henry S. Rowen]] was president of the [[RAND Corporation]] from 1967-1972. He served under former presidents Reagan and Bush as chairman of the [[National Intelligence Council]] (1981-83) and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1989-91). He currently holds the title of "senior fellow" at the [[Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace]]
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| − | *[[Donald H. Rumsfeld]]
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| − | *[[Vin Weber]], a former Republican congressman from Minnesota, is now a well-connected lobbyist who has represented such firms as [[AT&T]], [[Lockheed Martin]] and [[Microsoft]]. Weber is also vice chairman of [[Empower America]] and a former fellow of the [[Progress and Freedom Foundation]].
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| − | *[[George Weigel]], a Roman Catholic religious and political commentator, is a "senior fellow" at the [[Ethics and Public Policy Center]].
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| − | *[[Paul Dundes Wolfowitz]]
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| − | === Other PNAC members (Updated 23 November 2005)===
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| − | *[[John R. Bolton]], U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security in the Bush administration.
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| − | *[[Ellen Bork]], Deputy Director [http://www.newamericancentury.org/ellenborkbio.htm].
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| − | *[[Thomas Donnelly]], Senior Fellow.
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| − | *[[Reuel Marc Gerecht]], Senior Fellow, Director of the [[Middle East Initiative]] [http://www.newamericancentury.org/reuelmarcgerechtbio.htm]
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| − | *[[Mark Gerson]], Project Director [http://www.newamericancentury.org/markgersonbio.htm].
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| − | *[[Michael Goldfarb]], Research Associate [http://www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm].
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| − | *[[Bruce P. Jackson]], President of the [[Project on Transitional Democracies]]
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| − | *[[Robert Kagan]], [http://www.newamericancentury.org/robertkaganbio.htm PNAC Co-founder and Project Director].
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| − | *[[Timothy Lehmann]], Assistant Director [http://www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm].
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| − | *[[Daniel McKivergan]], Deputy Director [http://www.newamericancentury.org/danielmckiverganbio.htm].
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| − | *[[Christopher Maletz]], Assistant Director.
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| − | *[[Richard N. Perle]]
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| − | *[[Gary Schmitt]], Executive Director.
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| − | *[[Randy Scheunemann]], Project Director [http://www.newamericancentury.org/randyscheunemannbio.htm]
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| − | ====Non-overlapping signatories to a 28 January 2005 letter to Congress====
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| − | [http://www.newamericancentury.org/defense-20050128.htm Source: Letter to Congress on Increasing U.S. Ground Forces], PNAC, January 28, 2005.
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| − | *[[Peter Beinart]]
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| − | *[[Jeffrey Bergner]]
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| − | *[[Daniel Blumenthal]]
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| − | *[[Max Boot]]
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| − | *[[Ivo H. Daalder]]
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| − | *[[Michele Flournoy]]
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| − | *[[Buster C. Glosson]]
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| − | *[[Frederick Kagan]]
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| − | *[[Craig Kennedy]]
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| − | *[[Paul Kennedy]]
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| − | *[[Robert Killebrew]]
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| − | *[[Will Marshall]]
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| − | *[[Clifford D. May]]
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| − | *[[Barry R. McCaffrey]]
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| − | *[[Joshua Muravchik]]
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| − | *[[Steven J. Nider]]
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| − | *[[Michael O'Hanlon]]
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| − | *[[Mackubin Thomas Owens]]
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| − | *[[Ralph Peters]]
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| − | *[[Danielle Pletka]]
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| − | *[[Stephen Peter Rosen]]
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| − | *[[Robert H. Scales]]
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| − | *[[Walter Slocombe]]
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| − | *[[James B. Steinberg]]
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| − | == Funding ==
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| − | MediaTransparency.org has documented $600,000 in donations to PNAC since 1997 from conservative foundations.[http://www.mediatransparency.org/grantsearchresults.php?searchString=New+American+Century] Funders include:
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| − | *[[Bradley Foundation]] ($500,000)
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| − | *[[John M. Olin Foundation]] ($50,000)
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| − | *[[Scaife Foundations]] (Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation ($50,000)
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| − | == PNAC Documents ==
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| − | *[http://www.newamericancentury.org/lettersstatements.htm Letters and Statements] stored on PNAC web site.
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| − | *[[Defense Policy Guidance 1992-1994]]
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| − | *[http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm Statement of Principles], Project for the New American Century, June 3, 1997.
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| − | *[http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm Letter to President Clinton on Iraq], Project for the New American Century, January 26, 1998.
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| − | *[http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqletter1998.htm Letter to Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott on Iraq], Project for the New American Century, May 29, 1998.
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| − | *"[http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century]," Project for the New American Century, September 2000.
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| − | *[http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraq-20030319.htm Statement on Post-War Iraq], Project for the New American Century, March 19, 2003.
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| − | *[http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraq-20030328.htm Second Statement on Post-War Iraq], Project for the New American Century, March 28, 2003.
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| − | ==References, Resources and Contact==
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| − | ===Contact===
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| − | :Phone: (202) 293-4983
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| − | :Website [http://www.newamericancentury.org/ www.newamericancentury.org]
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| − | == External Resources ==
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| − | *[http://www.amiraqa.com America and the New American Century], the new book covering the PNAC, their takeover of American foreign policy, and the War on Terror.
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| − | *The [http://pnac.info PNAC Info] weblog is devoted to exposing PNAC and "its plan for a 'unipolar' world."
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| − | *[http://194.183.22.90/ips/eng.NSF/vwWEBMainView?SearchView&Query=%28PNAC%29+&SearchMax=0&SearchOrder=3 at IPS] reverse date sort.
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| − | ===2001===
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| − | *Jason Vest, [http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/19/vest-j.html Bush's War Hawk], ''The American Prospect'', November 5, 2001.
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| − | *Jon Wolfsthal, [http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=905 "What Is to Be Done With The Axis of Evil?"] Proliferation Brief, Vol. 5, No. 1, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 6, 2002.
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| − | *Brian Whitaker, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html "US Think Tanks Give Lessons in Foreign Policy,"] ''Guardian'' (UK), August 19, 2002.
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| − | *[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml "Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11,"] CBS News, September 4, 2002.
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| − | *Neil Mackay, [http://www.sundayherald.com/27735 "Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President,"] ''Sunday Herald'' (UK), September 15, 2002.
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| − | *Jay Bookman, [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2319.htm "The president's real goal in Iraq,"] ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' (''Information Clearinghouse''), September 29, 2002.
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| − | *Tom Barry and Jim Lobe, [http://www.fpif.org/papers/02men/ "The Men Who Stole the Show,"] Foreign Policy In Focus, October 2002.
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| − | *Joe Taglieri, [http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100102_bush_advisors.html "Bush Advisers Planned Iraq War Since 1990s,"] ''From The Wilderness'', October 1, 2002.
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| − | *Tom Barry, [http://www.presentdanger.org/frontier/2002/1031neocon.html "PNAC'S Present Dangers As Blueprint for Bush Doctrine,"] Foreign Policy In Focus, October 31, 2002.
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| − | *Laura Miller, "[http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q4/war.html War is Sell]," ''PR Watch'', 4th Quarter 2002. This report includes information about PNAC and related organizations supporting and pushing for the war on Iraq.
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| − | *William Rivers Pitt, "[http://truthout.org/docs_02/022203A.htm Of Gods and Mortals and Empire]," February 21, 2003 editorial for [http://truthout.org/ Truthout].
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| − | *William Rivers Pitt, "[http://truthout.org/docs_03/022803A.shtml Blood Money]," February 27, 2003 editorial for [http://truthout.org/ Truthout].
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| − | *Robert Dreyfuss, [http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/03/ma_273_01.html The Thirty-Year Itch], ''Mother Jones'', March/April 2003.
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| − | *Von Jochen Bölsche, "[http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,238643,00.html The war designed in a think tank]" (German), [http://www.spiegel.de ''Der Spiegel''], March 4, 2003. This report describes how Bush's current policies toward Iraq mirrors PNAC's blueprint for war before Bush took office.
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| − | *ABC's [http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/Nightline/ Nightline], hosted by Ted Koppel, featured a program about PNAC on Wednesday, March 5, 2003. See [http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/pnac_030310.html "The Plan: Were Neo-Conservatives' 1998 Memos a Blueprint for Iraq War?"], March 10, 2003.
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| − | *[[Joseph Cirincione]], [http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1214 "Origins of Regime Change in Iraq,"] Proliferation Brief Vol. 6, No. 5, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 19, 2003.
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| − | *André Verlöy and Daniel Politi; Data by Aron Pilhofer, [http://www.public-i.org/report.aspx?aid=91 "Advisors of Influence: Nine Members of the Defense Policy Board Have Ties to Defense Contractors,"] Center for Public Integrity, March 28, 2003.
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| − | *Joseph Cirincione, [http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=04/01/2003 Interview by Terry Gross], ''Fresh Air'', April 1, 2003.
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| − | *Bruce Murphy, [http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/apr03/131523.asp Neoconservative clout seen in U.S. Iraq policy], ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' On-line, April 5, 2003.
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| − | *Bernard Weiner, [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3544.htm "A PNAC Primer,"] ''informationclearinghouse'', May 7, 2003.
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| − | *Neil Mackay, [http://www.sundayherald.com/print34271 No weapons in Iraq? We'll find them in Iran], ''Sunday Herald'', June 1, 2003.
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| − | *Jim Lobe, [http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=19255 "Key Officials Used 9/11 As Pretext for Iraq War,"] Inter Press Service, July 15, 2003: "A close examination of the public record indicates that all of these individuals -- both in and outside the administration -- were actively preparing the ground within days, even hours, after the 9/11 attacks, for an eventual attack on Iraq, whether or not it had any role in the attacks or any connection to al Qaeda. The challenge, in their view, was to persuade the public that such links either did indeed exist or were sufficiently likely to exist that a preventive strike against Iraq was warranted. Their success in that respect was stunning, although, in order to pull it off, they also had to distort and exaggerate the evidence being collected by U.S. intelligence agencies." See [[cooked intelligence]].
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| − | *Richard M. Bennett, [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EF20Ak02.html "US wages war from within Iran,"] ''Asia Times'', June 20, 2003.
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| − | *Barbara Starr, [http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/24/wolfowitz.tribunals/ "Defense deputy gets authority for military tribunals,"] CNN, June 24, 2003.
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| − | *Ed Crane and William Niskanen, [http://www.cato.org/dailys/07-09-03.html "Upholding Liberty in America,"] [[CATO Institute]], July 9, 2003.
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| − | *[http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/neo-conned.htm "Neo-conned,"] Congressman [[Ron Paul]] addresses the U.S. House of Representatives, July 10, 2003.
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| − | *Jim Lobe, [http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=19565 "Pentagon Office Home to Neo-Con Network,"] Inter Press Service, August 7, 2003.
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| − | *Dan Morgan, [http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/081203G.shtml "A Debate Over U.S. 'Empire' Builds in Unexpected Circles,"] ''Washington Post'' (''TruthOut''), August 10, 2003. re [[Office of Special Plans]]
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| − | *William Bunch, [http://foi.missouri.edu/polinfoprop/invading.html "Invading Iraq not a new idea for Bush clique. 4 years before 9/11, plan was set,"] ''Philly.com'' (Freedom of Information Center), January 14, 2004.
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| − | *[[Jason Leopold]], [http://www.liberalslant.com/jl011904.htm "Paul O'Neill's Claims Against Bush Supported By 1998 'War' Letters to Clinton Signed By Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz,"] ''Liberal Slant'', January 19, 2004.
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| − | *[http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/index.html?leftNavInclude "Empire Builders. Neoconservatives and their blueprint for US power,"] ''Christian Science Monitor'', Updated June 2005.
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| − | *Al Kamen, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100739.html The Democrats, Keeping a Civil Tongue]", ''Washington Post'', June 12, 2006; Page A19
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| − | *Jim Lobe, "[http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0613-05.htm "New American Century" Project Ends With A Whimper]", ''Inter Press Service'', June 13, 2006
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