Rice picks neo-con champion on Iraq (this is one scary dude)

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IC06Ak01.html
WASHINGTON - In a move that has surprised many foreign-policy analysts, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has appointed a prominent neo-conservative hawk and leading champion of the Iraq war to the post of State Department counselor.

Eliot A Cohen, who teaches military history at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and has also served on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board (DPB) since 2001, will take up the position next month that was left vacant late
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A close friend and protege of former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz and advisory board member of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Cohen most recently led the harsh neo-conservative attack on the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG), co-chaired by former secretary of state James Baker and former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton.
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Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, agreed: "Bringing on Cohen could help inoculate her from criticism by the Cheney camp," Clemons said in a reference to Vice President Richard Cheney and the neo-conservatives and other hawks who surround him. "One of the things that's been consistent is that Rice never takes Cheney head-on and is very careful not to take on people who might antagonize him."

In that respect, Cohen is a nearly ideal choice. Like Cheney, Cohen was a founding member in 1997 of the Project for the New American Century, whose positions on how to prosecute the "war on terror" - including the invasion of Iraq and cutting ties to the Palestinian Authority (PA) under Yasser Arafat - he has consistently endorsed.
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Cohen first gained national prominence shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when he published a Wall Street Journal column titled "World War IV" - a moniker quickly adopted by hardline neo-cons such as former director of central intelligence and fellow DPB member James Woolsey, former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, and Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney (on whose board Cohen also sits) - to put Bush's "war on terror" in what he considered to be the appropriate historical context and to define its enemy as "militant Islam".
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This guy is a War Hawk and Part of the New American Century
Unfreakingbelievable...:nuke:

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1. K 'n R

more people need to see this....these criminals don't stop to breathe; once on the path of destruction, it appears, they gain momentum.