FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALL.... ALL THE WAY TO THE GUYS WHO GAVE US THE WAR IN IRAQ

I received a link to an article by the "Media Research Center" blasting Obama and praising Mitt Romney while "exposing" the coordinated attack on Romney by the "liberal" media (quotes are all mine).

See if you can follow the bouncing ball- or connect the dots, from the "Media Research Center" to the "Project for a New American Century" who were the people in the 1990's who wanted Clinton to invade Iraq and set up permanent military bases to control the oil in the Middle East, who later took power or wielded influence during the Bush Administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Kristol) and who concocted the lies that brought us the Iraq War, over 4,000 dead Americans, over 30,000 wounded, and a few more trillion dollars in debt.

http://www.mrc.org/press-releases/mrc-exposes-medias-coordinated-attack-romney

MRC Exposes Media's Coordinated Attack on Romney
Bozell Rips Cover Up Of Obama's Jimmy Carter Moment
Published: 9/13/2012 3:51 PM ET

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Research_Center

The MRC has received financial support from several foundations, including the Bradley, Scaife, Olin, Castle Rock, Carthage and JM foundations.[3] Bob Ward has said that it also receives funding from ExxonMobil.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Scaife_Foundation

The Sarah Scaife Foundation is one of the American Scaife Foundations. It is controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife. The foundation does not award grants to individuals. It concentrates its efforts towards causes focused on public policy at a national and international level. From 1985 to 2003 the organization awarded over $235 million to other organizations.

The organizations it has supported include the George C. Marshall Institute and Project for the New American Century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
Calls for regime change in Iraq during Clinton years

The goal of regime change in Iraq remained the consistent position of PNAC throughout the 1997-2000 Iraq disarmament crisis.[6][7]

Richard Perle, who later became a core member of PNAC, was involved in similar activities to those pursued by PNAC after its formal organization. For instance, in 1996 Perle composed a report that proposed regime changes in order to restructure power in the Middle East. The report was titled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm and called for removing Saddam Hussein from power, as well as other ideas to bring change to the region. The report was delivered to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[8] Two years later, in 1998, Perle and other core members of the PNAC - Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey, Elliot Abrams, and John Bolton - "were among the signatories of a letter to President Clinton calling for the removal of Hussein."[8]

http://buildabettermousetrap.blogspot.com/search?q=Project+for+a+new+american+century

The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997.

The fundamental essence of PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." In it, PNAC outlines what is required of America to create the global empire they envision. According to PNAC, America must:

* Reposition permanently based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;

Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

PNAC has recently given birth to a new group, The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in order to formulate a plan to "educate" the American populace about the need for war in Iraq.

The PNAC plan calls for the US to take control of the Gulf region with overwhelming and deadly military force. "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification," the PNAC document explains, "the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." In other words, Saddam is little more than an excuse for "maintaining global US pre-eminence... and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests." After the PNAC document was leaked to the Sunday Herald, Tam Dalyell, the British Labor MP, hit the nail right on the head when he declared, "This is garbage from right-wing think-tanks stuffed with chicken-hawks -- men who have never seen the horror of war but are in love with the idea of war. Men like Cheney, who were draft-dodgers in the Vietnam war."