The Neocon - Think Tank - Bush & Co. Foreign Policy Connection

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I stumbled upon this little study the other day, and while most of the info is now well known to anyone who has done a little digging into the neo-cons (and certainly to most Duers), it is an interesting way of looking at these groups who've hijacked our country.

This study puts PNAC dead center (no surprise there, either), but check out the other connections and how this guy compiled this info. Now, with the drumbeat of war pointing toward Iran, when reviewing this study, just substitute 'Iran' for 'Iraq.'

I can't get the Figure 1 to copy, so try the link.

U.S. Policy Towards Iraq: Unraveling the Web
Laurence A. Toenjes

Executive Summary

When the United States began transporting troops to the Persian Gulf in the fall of 2002 it was evident that the war against Iraq was underway. This paper was begun in an attempt to answer the question: How did the war against Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda become the war to depose Saddam Hussein?

The effort to understand this change in U.S. policy led to a picture of a relatively small group of persons associated with certain think tanks and other organizations achieving disproportionate influence over the policy formulation process. The activities of fourteen organizations were coordinated by individuals who comprised a web of interlocking memberships...

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The main contribution of this paper is the attempt to quantify the inter-linked nature of the 14 organizations by cross-tabulating individuals with memberships in two or more of them. Examples: Richard Perle was associated with 10 of the 14, Jeane Kirkpatrick with 7, James Woolsey with 6, John Bolton with 4. Altogether 223 links were found between the 14 groups, where a link is defined as the association of a single individual with two organizations. Although over 650 individuals associated with the 14 organizations included in the study were analyzed, just 9 individuals formed 121 of the inter-group links, accounting for over half of the total. This concentration of the inter-group linkages suggests that a small number of individuals could effectively influence and coordinate the foreign policy impact of these organizations.

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A major purpose in creating this diagram was to provide a visual representation of the frequently-referred-to interrelationships of core organizations involved with formulating U.S. policy on Iraq...

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Web of Organizations Involved in
Formulating U.S. Foreign Policy on Iraq

Figure 1 see page 11 (pdf)

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Observation 4: PNAC has the largest number of links (71 in all, including links of degrees 1 and 2 which are not shown in Figure 1) with the remaining organizations (See row 16, Table 6), followed by CSP with 50 and CLI with 49. The two other members of the 5-member clique identified above—DPB and JINSA—follow with 43 linkages each. This is further evidence of the centrality of these organizations within the complete network of 14

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Analysis of the 5-member clique

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Within the 5-member clique, henceforth referred to merely as the clique, some degree of specialization of roles is discernible, and acknowledged in part by the manner in which at least three of the members describe themselves. While there is still considerable overlap in functions, the major roles played by each of the 5 members of the clique might be described as follows:

PNAC Planning function
CLI Coordination function
CSP Information dissemination function
DPB Policy Action
JINSA Interface with Israel

Each of these organizations will be discussed in turn, with a focus on the specialized function they appear to play within the clique...

Cont'd: http://www.opednews.com/toenjes_IraqPolicyWeb_withTables_July19.doc
(pdf) note: figures/graphs show up better in this version

HTML version

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1. Shameless Kick

Most of us know this info, but put in this context is good as research info, IMHO.

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2. Didn't someone in Congress

just raise the question asking when did the PNAC doctrine become US foreign policy? Especially since this was never approved by Congress. I think it might have been Kerry? Either way, the cabal needs to be exposed.

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3. Interesting. Hadn't heard that yet.

I do know that there is a suit going on re: PNAC v Bush/Cheney discussed here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x190942

Freedom Founders Defense Fund Press Release


Here's the latest I got from Doug Wallace, the retired attorney with the RICO case against the Bush Administration. I thought some of you would be interested.

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FOUNDERS FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND

P.O. Box 60958 Reno, NV 89506



PRESS RELEASE



Date: January 18, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



SUBJECT MATTER: YESTERDAY JANUARY 17th GEORGE W. BUSH AND DICK CHENEY

WERE SERVED LONG DELAYED SUMMONS AND

COMPLAINT





The lawsuit filed on January 14th 2005 in US District Court in Reno, Nevada by retired Washington State attorney Douglas A. Wallace was served upon the Defendants at the office of the Attorney General in Washington D. C.



The class action lawsuit seeks an injunction against the Defendants from further implementation of the Plan for the New American Century (PNAC) without a Constitutional 2/3 vote of the Congress and full education of the American public.

The lawsuit alleges the plan was the basis for deception behind the Iraq war.



The suit alleges that defendants acted in a conspiratorial manner among themselves in deceiving the Congress and the American public of the need to go to war with Iraq. Hence a private treaty among the conspirators to violate Constitutional restraints upon Bush and Cheney.

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I live pretty close to this guy. Maybe I'll look him up.

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4. That's the case

I knew there was some 'legal' action taken. I hope this has some teeth.

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5. I just checked out his website

Looks like things have moved slowly. And looks like he could use some help. The number of visits to his website is really low. I think he might be onto something though. Wouldn't that be something?

I'm not very "legally minded." Anybody know if this would be like a RICO thing?

http://www.wallacevbushlawsuit.com/

Anyway, I sent him an email, asking for him to contact me and offering my assistance. I'll post later if I get any details back from him. Any effort, no matter how small or farfetched is worthwhile at this stage of the game, because I'm tired of waiting for the powers that be in our government to do something!

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6. The Web of Orgs in US Foreign Policy