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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Daily Caller report cited by Grayson was written by the president of neocon group
Verify chemical weapons use before unleashing the dogs of warhttp://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/verify-chemical-weapons-use-before-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war/
The interesting thing is that opinion is by the president of a group aligned with PNAC.
Recently, the group gained attention for a lawsuit it brought in the Southern District of New York for Manhattan alleging that Iran was behind the 9-11 terrorist attacks.[citation needed]
Its website delivers news and intelligence concerning Iran.
In 2005, the website reported sources said that Iran "is planning a nuclear weapons test before the Iranian New Year on March 20, 2006", whereas a 2005 assessment by the International Institute for Strategic Studies concluded "if Iran threw caution to the wind, and sought a nuclear weapon capability as quickly as possible without regard for international reaction, it might be able to produce enough HEU for a single nuclear weapon by the end of this decade" assuming no technical problems [1].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Democracy_in_Iran
Kenneth Timmerman is a rightist author and policy advocate who directs the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI), which he founded in 1995 with Joshua Muravchik and Peter Rodman to push hawkish U.S. policies on Iran. The National Endowment for Democracy provided the group's start-up funding. For many years a journalist with mainstream outlets like Time magazine and the author of some well-received books on global affairs, Timmerman appears to have eschewed traditional journalism in favor of right-wing, hawkish activism by the early 1990s. According to his own telling, he was fired by Time magazine for investigating the Clinton sell-off to Communist China of our national strategic technology, and it became increasingly difficult to get anything in the New York Times or Newsweek or Time or onto ABC, CNN, those types of places. Since then I've proudly waved my conservative banner."[1]
Timmerman has also been a member of a number of neoconservative-aligned pressure groups, including the Committee on the Present Danger and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, both hardline pro-Israel organizations that have supported an expansive "war on terror" aimed at Islamic countries.
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In addition to his writings, Timmerman has been active in promoting a lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims alleging Iranian culpability for the attacks. The only real effect of the case is to promote right-wing political myths about Iran, explains journalist Gareth Porter. One of the peculiarities of such cases is that the witnesses are not subject to cross examination in court. The witnesses have every incentive, therefore to indulge in false testimony, knowing that there will be no one to challenge them.[4]
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As a correspondent for the conservative Newsmax.com, Timmerman has been broadly critical of the Barack Obama administration.[6] In an interview with the New English Review, Timmerman summed up his view of the administrations Middle East policies: I believe the common thread between Obamas response to the cries for freedom of the Iranian people and his enabling of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is this: Obama likes radical Islamic rule.[7]
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http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Timmerman_Kenneth
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Your attempt at character assassination, while par for the course with the authoritarian chorus, is ridiculously irrelevant. We need to be informed or as a people we cannot have a functional democracy. We've already fought a total bullshit war that ruined an entire nation, just a few years ago. Now we are being asked to start another one, and the alleged evidence justifying this war is highly dubious, and our actual motivations are not being openly discussed.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Typical nonsense noise.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)The Daily Caller is a rightwing rag.
A neocon who is advocating war with Iran who has made bogus claims about its nuclear program, who is trying to blame 9/11 on the Iranians is not trustworthy.
Are you seriously going to claim that you trust his assessment?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)i used to usually check who wrote the article on the google machine. after i traced one of the greenwald`s stories origin back to a blogger here in the states i've decided to do this on all posts that have links.
by the way have you read this?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3615832
one of the clearest explanation of the complexity of the middle east
ProSense
(116,464 posts)After all, if Grayson wants to quote a neocon source as credible, he should be able to without anyone pointing it out.
My bad. Sheesh!
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)I first saw a tweet from Kucinich on this story
And I'm surprised so many Neocons don't want wider war.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Neocons only have one objective: oppose Obama.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)I'm surprised a number of them favor low intensity warfare and a dragged out stalemate, and not something big and stupid.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"I'm surprised a number of them favor low intensity warfare and a dragged out stalemate, and not something big and stupid. "
...neocons are not to be trusted. As I said, the author of the piece is neocon who is advocating war with Iran, who has made bogus claims about its nuclear program, who is trying to blame 9/11 on the Iranians.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)as one day the world will know, he is one.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)off to the Greatest!
Sid
Rex
(65,616 posts)What he said sounded so unlike him...my my my WHAT is going on here!? PNAC? I've been told they are nothing more then a myth like the BFEE, right here on DU for many many years.
So now it is kewl to believe in PNAC now? That only took a decade.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Cha
(297,733 posts)best he could do? I think so.
thanks for exposing it, PS.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)Shame on Grayson.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Senators who voted for Syria strike got more defense contractor dough
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/06/senators-who-voted-for-syria-strike-got-more-defense-contractor-dough/
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)a few of the Assad buds that are in bed with the Tea Party!