Neocon Smear Machine: Rice, Ross, CNAS Part Of ‘Iran Lobby’
Neocon Smear Machine: Rice, Ross, CNAS Part Of ‘Iran Lobby’
For anyone familiar with the work of neocon hysteric Frank Gaffney — who we last saw suggesting that Gov. Sarah Palin’s national security credentials had been achieved “by osmosis” — the fact that his organization’s new report on The Iran Lobby is a pathetic fog of alarmist innuendos and unsubstantiated assertions should come as no surprise.
But rather than spend valuable time demonstrating why the report’s research method makes “guilt by association” seem like a comparatively rigorous argumentative framework, I’ll just quote from the report’s conclusion (pg 25), which lists some of the people the report claims “have been associated in one way or another with the Iran Lobby”:
• Fletcher School professor and Middle East scholar, Dr. Vali Nasr, who will, as noted above, be Ambassador Richard Holbrooke’s senior advisor – a position that will assuredly involve decisions about dealings with Afghanistan’s neighbor.
• Dr. Susan Rice, the Obama administration’s new Ambassador to the United Nations. Amb. Rice served on the board of directors for the Center for a New American Security. While CNAS is not formally connected directly with either NIAC or Trita Parsi, the foreign policy positions of its affiliates correspond strongly to the preferred policy positions of Tehran’s mullahs.
• Ambassador Dennis Ross, who will be a senior advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Iran policy, was previously an “Expert” for CNAS.
• Council on Foreign Relations Committee president and another CNAS “Expert” Richard Haas, reportedly is under consideration for a top job in the Obama foreign policy team.
Do you oppose air strikes on Iran? So do Tehran’s mullahs! Congratulations, you are now part of the Iran Lobby. But really, if the neocons ever intend to be taken seriously again, they need to get some of these characters in check.
5 Responses to “Neocon Smear Machine: Rice, Ross, CNAS Part Of ‘Iran Lobby’”
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Dennis Ross is a neocon. This is horse hockey. Obama is Bush III on Iran.
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:47 pmThe author of the piece has long been associated with the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, via its front group, the National Council for Resistance in Iran. The MEK is an Iranian terrorist group as designated by the U.S. Department of State, but one that seeks to overthrow the Tehran government.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/3280.html
This is red meat for wingnuts stuff. Low-hanging fruit for blogposts, but nothing to worry about, either.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:11 pmGet those characters in line and go with who exactly? William ‘the bloody’ Kristol?
Seriously, those people are the neocons, and what they do is what the neocons stand for – lie, cheat, smear, get everything wrong, and above all else, support Israel.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:45 pmJust how loony is this guy, suggesting that Dennis Ross, a hardline pro-Israel stooge from Clinton-time, is pro-Iran? Too bizarre.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:57 amJimboSlice Says:
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Get those characters in line and go with who exactly? William ‘the bloody’ Kristol?
Seriously, those people are the neocons, and what they do is what the neocons stand for – lie, cheat, smear, get everything wrong, and above all else, support Israel.
have you even once checked up on the reliability of what is said by this site or the huffington, nytimes or any such sited media?,,, talk about lie, cheat, smear, and get everything wrong.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 am