The People Who Brought Us WMD Run the Carter-Baker Commission on Elections

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Read it and weep. The man behind “fixing” American elections, Prof. Robert A. Pastor, signed on to this famous letter. I’m cure President Clinton took a look and filed it under “C” for “crazy ideas.” This guy is part of the crew who brought is Iraq’s WMD’s

This commission was the one that was to straighten out the problems in the 2004 election. Oh, boy, I can't wait! There first recommendation was the famous VOTER IDENTIFICATION CARD. Thanks fellas!

Just who is Robert Pastor, the American University Academic Behind the Carter Baker Commission (the Director)?
Well, He’s Part of the Crew that Brought Us WMD and the Iraq War.
“Fixing” US Elections Must Be His Promotion

And why did President Carter and James Baker Hire Him to Run the Commission on “Improving” Federal Elections? Well he’s worked for both of them and the ALL have very nice things to say about one another. I wonder if they knew he signed this letter?

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=papers&code=01-D_76

Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf

Open Letter to the President

19 February 1998

Dear Mr. President,

Many of us were involved in organizing the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf in 1990 to support President Bush's policy of expelling Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. Seven years later, Saddam Hussein is still in power in Baghdad. And despite his defeat in the Gulf War, continuing sanctions, and the determined effort of UN inspectors to fetter out and destroy his weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein has been able to develop biological and chemical munitions. To underscore the threat posed by these deadly devices, the Secretaries of State and Defense have said that these weapons could be used against our own people. And you have said that this issue is about "the challenges of the 21st Century."

Iraq's position is unacceptable. While Iraq is not unique in possessing these weapons, it is the only country which has used them -- not just against its enemies, but its own people as well. We must assume that Saddam is prepared to use them again. This poses a danger to our friends, our allies, and to our nation.

It is clear that this danger cannot be eliminated as long as our objective is simply "containment," and the means of achieving it are limited to sanctions and exhortations. As the crisis of recent weeks has demonstrated, these static policies are bound to erode, opening the way to Saddam's eventual return to a position of power and influence in the region. Only a determined program to change the regime in Baghdad will bring the Iraqi crisis to a satisfactory conclusion.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-1521

Robert A. Pastor actively participated in the following events:

The Committee for Peace and Security publishes an open letter to President Bill Clinton outlining a 9-point “comprehensive political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam and his regime.” The letter is signed by a litany of former US government officials known for their neoconservative viewpoints. Several of the signatories are also involved with the Project for the New American Century and had endorsed a similar letter published by that organization the previous month.
People and organizations involved: William B. Clark, Richard Burt, Stephen Bryen, Jeffrey T. Bergner, Paula J. Dobriansky, Richard V. Allen, Richard Armitage, Stephen Solarz, Frank Gaffney, Robert C. McFarlane, Jarvis Lynch, Frederick L. Lewis, Bernard Lewis, Sven F. Kraemer, Jeffrey Gedmin, Fred C. Ikle, Zalmay M. Khalilzad, John R. Bolton, Gary Schmitt, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Dov S. Zakheim, David Wurmser, Joshua Muravchik, William Kristol, Douglas Feith, Robert Kagan, Elliott Abrams, Michael Ledeen, Robert A. Pastor, Frank Carlucci, Roger Robinson, Martin Peretz, Max Singer, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Caspar Weinberger, Leon Wienseltier, Peter Rosenblatt, Peter Rodman

And when he's not fixing us elections, he's advocating the elimination of the USA through a greater North America where we've merged with Mexico and Canada. Wonder if he's asked the Mexicans and Canadians about that project?
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ldt.html

Lou Dobbs Tonight Appearance

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT - On Capitol Hill, testimony calling for Americans to start thinking like citizens of North America and treat the U.S., Mexico and Canada like one big country.

ROBERT PASTOR, INDEPENDENT TASK FORCE ON NORTH AMERICA created by the Council on Foreign Relations: The best way to secure the United States today is not at our two borders with Mexico and Canada, but at the borders of North America as a whole.

ROMANS: That's the view in a report called "Building a North American Community." It envisions a common border around the U.S., Mexico and Canada in just five years, a border pass for residents of the three countries, and a freer flow of goods and people. Task force member Robert Pastor:

PASTOR: What we hope to accomplish by 2010 is a common external tariff which will mean that goods can move easily across the border. We want a common security perimeter around all of North America, so as to ease the travel of people within North America.

ROMANS: Buried in 49 pages of recommendations from the task force, the brief mention, "We must maintain respect for each other's sovereignty." But security experts say folding Mexico and Canada into the U.S. is a grave breach of that sovereignty.

FRANK GAFFNEY, CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY: That's what would happen if anybody serious were to embrace this strategy for homogenizing the United States and its sovereignty with the very different systems existing today in Canada and Mexico.

ROMANS: Especially considering Mexico's problems with drug trafficking, human smuggling and poverty. Critics say the country is just too far behind the U.S. and Canada to be included in a so-called common community. But the task force wants military and law enforcement cooperation between all three countries. . .

ROMANS: The idea here is to make North America more like the European Union. Yet, just this week, voters in two major countries in the European Union voted against upgrading -- updating the European constitution. So clearly, this is not the best week to be trying to sell that idea.

LOU DOBBS: Americans must think that our political and academic elites have gone utterly mad at a time when three-and-a-half years, approaching four years after September 11, we still don't have border security. And this group of elites is talking about not defending our borders, finally, but rather creating new ones. It's astonishing.

ROMANS: The theory here is that we are stronger together, three countries in one, rather than alone.

DOBBS: Well, it's a -- it's a mind-boggling concept. Christine Romans, thank you, as always.