If you're not familiar with him, Woolsey is not only the wildest and most unbridled of neoconservative hawks but one who combines his hawkishness with the most fevered conspiracy theories. Lots of people made up stories about Saddam Hussein having advanced nuclear and biological weapons programs. Woolsey was one of the few, even in the hardest core neoconservative circles, to back a conspiracy theory that held that Saddam was responsible not only for 9/11 but for the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 too. He was also a big backer of a completely inane fever swamp idea that all global terrorism is run by a so called "five families of terrorism.' Yes, the Five Families of Terrorism. Look it up. Also look up Laurie Mylroie.
In other words, if you want a lot of wars and for the most insane reasons possible, you'll hook up with Jim Woolsey. Either that, or some new financial backer said Woolsey was awesome. One way or another, wake up!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/wise-up-folksAs I tried to convince a DUer a couple of months ago:
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Center for Security Policy is the most right wing fanatical anti-Islam group there is
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Presumably you're talking about Woolsey; he's a bit of a neoconservative wanker, who Clinton apparently appointed to look 'tough' on foreign policy, and the 2 had a non-existent relationship while he was at the CIA. Afterwards:
Woolsey is the chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board at the Opportunities Development Group (ODG). ODG did not file a federal tax return in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He is currently a member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Board of Advisors, Advisor of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, co-founder of the United States Energy Security Council, Founding Member of the Set America Free Coalition, and a Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton for Global Strategic Security (since July 15, 2002). He is a Patron of the Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank. Woolsey has had long-standing contact with Central and Eastern Europe and is a Member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation based in Berlin, Copenhagen, Prague, Sydney, and Toronto. He was formerly chairman of the Freedom House board of trustees. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of NGO Monitor.
Woolsey is a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signatories to the January 26, 1998 letter sent to President Clinton that called for the removal of Saddam Hussein. That same year he served on the Rumsfeld Commission, which investigated the threat of ballistic missiles for the U.S. Congress.
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Within hours of the September 11 attacks, Woolsey appeared on television suggesting Iraqi complicity. In September 2002, as Congress was deliberating authorizing President Bush to use force against Iraq, Woolsey told the Wall Street Journal that he believed that Iraq was also connected to the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
In 2005, Steve Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank, accused Woolsey of both profiting from and promoting the Iraq War. Melvin A. Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and former CIA division chief, told the Washington Post that "Woolsey was a disaster as CIA director in the 1990s and is now running around this country calling for a World War IV to deal with the Islamic problem".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._James_Woolsey_Jr.
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You're still trying to get us to pay attention to a bunch of lunatics even if one of them served under Clinton. I mean, look at how much he has pushed for war against any Muslim country - Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan. Woolsey has blood on his hands, the same way Cheney does. He is a true Islamophobe - he hates and fears all Islam, and all Muslims.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027905841#post165
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