So Where Was (EX??) Pentagon Adviser Richerd Perle Speaking Yesterday????

[leftchick]

Former Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle, left, accompanied by Iraqi National Congress spokesman Entifadh Qanbar discusses the situation in Iraq (news - web sites) during an address before the Hudson Institute in Washington, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. The Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)


So just how "non-partisan" is The Hudson Intitute?? ROFL!!!....


http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/hudson_institute.htm

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www.Hudson.org

Hudson Institute, Inc.

The Hudson Institute, based in Indiana, received large grants from two prominent foundations: from the Olin Foundation, $125,000 in 1993 and $300,000 in 1994; from the Bradley Foundation, $600,000 in 1994. The Institute is a hard-right activist think tank that advocates the abolition of government-backed Social Security and an end to corporate income taxes.
-Buying a Movement

Also the author of W-2, Wisconsin's national welfare reform model. According to the March 2, 1997 edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Hudson Institute is "a private group that helped design" Wisconsin's welfare reform

Also: Bio at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Bruno V. Manno

Manno, who along with is longtime collaborate Chester Finn, was an Assistant Secretary of Education in the Bush Administration under Lamar Alexander, is currently a Senior Fellow in the Washington office of the Hudson Institute.

In addition: Also see

Bruno V. Manno
Chester E. Finn
Lilly Endowment. Helps fund the Hudson Institute.
Bradley Foundation. Helps fund the Hudson Institute.


MediaMatters.org
September 30, 2004

MSNBC yanks GOP "pollster" Frank Luntz

Upon hearing that MSNBC planned for Republican pollster Frank Luntz (Hudson Institute adjunct fellow) to conduct on-air focus groups as part of the cable network's debate coverage tonight, David Brock of the media watchdog group Media Matters sent MSNBC executive Rick Kaplan a letter of complaint. It looks like Kaplan listened.

http://www.hudson.org/

If you are searching for Adjunct fellows, Visiting fellow, or general staff, please utilize the links above for further guidance.

Carol C. Adelman - VIEW BIO
Alex A. Avery - VIEW BIO
Dennis T. Avery - VIEW BIO
Anne Bayefsky - VIEW BIO
Robert H. Bork - VIEW BIO
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Yoshiki Hidaka - VIEW BIO
Charles Horner - VIEW BIO
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Lawrence F. Kaplan - VIEW BIO
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Kenneth R. Weinstein - VIEW BIO
S. Enders Wimbush - VIEW BIO
Meyrav Wurmser - VIEW BIO

this is a veritible whos who of the PNAC and who is married to them crowd!!!

[Quakerfriend]

1. Great post, leftchick!

We need to expose them at every turn!

[rodeodance]

2. can we have the link on Perle please. thanks in advance

[leftchick]

3. I found the photo on Yahoo...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/iraq/082701iraqplane&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=1&e=22&a=&printer=

There was no accompanying story. No surprise there, they often have a treasure trove of information in the photos and captions with no stories.

[rodeodance]

4. drats, I wanted to write to whoever wrote that caption!!

[leftchick]

6. I believe the photographers do...

at least the photo captions out of Iraq seem to be written by them.

[leftchick]

5. Found this related article: Shiite envoy angry with U.S. over Baathists

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050211-054457-8544r.htm

Entifadh Qanbar, special envoy of Iraq's majority Shiite party United Iraqi Alliance, (the unhappy looking guy next to perle) is none too happy.....




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Qanbar charged that the Iraqi administration and their U.S. advisers have recruited senior people from Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to crack down on the ongoing insurgency. "Experts in America thought that they should bring Baathists to power. That definitely led to a rapid destabilization of the situation," Qanbar said.

He demanded that the United States "de-Baathify" Iraq. "The security apparatus not only turned a blind eye on terrorism," Qanbar said, "but it helped terrorists."

Bad decisions on the part of the interim government before the election were responsible for many of the security deficiencies in post-war Iraq. "It is time to point out the level of security and corruption problems we had in the last six months. The government was actively working to help terrorism," he said.

The infiltration of Iraqi police and intelligence services had gone so far it was a "nightmare to be stopped by police" in Iraq. "They could kill me," Qanbar said, "I have had some serious encounters." Collaboration with former members of the Baath Party has led to countless problems, he maintained, giving Iraq no future. "The Baath party is the richest terror organization in history," he said.

Qanbar was referring to the decision made by the Washington-backed interim Iraqi government to recruit former members of the Baath Party in an effort to install experienced security and police officials to battle the insurgency. Initially they had been prohibited from participating in the new government, which led to resentment, anger and unemployment among many who had joined the party only to keep their positions under Saddam's regime.


LOL! This guy is in dreamland like the rest of his neo-con partners.

[leftchick]

8. As A matter of fact. he looks downright Pissed!

Iraqi National Congress spokesman Entifadh Qanbar listens to former assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle, not shown, discuss the situation in Iraq (news - web sites) during an address before the Hudson Institute in Washington, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005. The Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)

[itzamirakul]

7. Thanks for the info...

I will be passing it on....

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