Will Marshall, PNAC Signatory

[POA]

Will Marshall is head of the "Progressive Policy Institute", the Democratic Leadership Council's think tank, and is additionally a signatory to the following document excerpted below found on the Project for a New American Century's website:

"Although some of us have disagreed with the administration's handling of Iraq policy and others of us have agreed with it, we all join in supporting the military intervention in Iraq. The aim of UNSC Resolution 1441 was to give the Iraqi government a "final opportunity" to comply with all UN resolutions going back 12 years. The Iraqi government has demonstrably not complied. It is now time to act to remove Saddam Hussein and his regime from power."

(No date listed)

As a result, it should hardly come as a great surprise that on the Progressive Policy Institute's webpage, he has made the following statements:

1) "Are Dennis Kucinich and Donald Rumsfeld secret allies? You'd think the Democrats' most vocal peacenik and the GOP warlord would have little in common, but both seem to be in a hurry to get U.S. troops out of Iraq. Even with Saddam Hussein in the bag and awaiting trial, that's a bad idea."

(The above excerpt came from an article called "Stay and Win in Iraq." I can't help but wonder what he thinks of the idea now.)

2)

"That Dean's putsch failed suggests that most Democrats remember the 1990s more fondly than he does. "Limiting damage" hardly does justice to the unprecedented surge of growth and job creation that brought unemployment, poverty, and budget deficits down while driving working family wages up. Public innovation also flourished, as New Democrats introduced national service, public charter schools, more cops and community policing, a work-based social policy to replace welfare, and other reforms. Clinton's "big government" line was not a sop to conservatives but an acknowledgement that central bureaucracies don't work very well in a networked world.

Judged on the results, it's incontestable that the 1990s was America's most progressive decade since the 1960s. Yet many on the left apparently haven't forgiven Clinton for achieving these results in unfamiliar and unorthodox ways. "

(The above was excerpted from "Why the Dean putsch failed").

[Moses]

Yep. That's who is in charge of the Democratic Party, now.

Someone wrote me that their boy John Edwards has introduced a bill to create a new domestic surveillance agency modelled on MI5.

I think Democratic Pollster Stanley Greenburg was also a signatory of one of the PNAC docs-- maybe the one in '98.

He and Korb and all are associated with "New American Century"? . They Also use the word "progressive". Trying to define it away to nothing.