Reply #68: Boston Phoenix documents it [View All]

[seventhson]

"...Kerry is widening the circle of people he consults on foreign policy.

"First, there’s Harlan Ullman, author of the "Shock and Awe" concept employed by the Pentagon at the start of the war against Iraq, who shares Kerry’s background as Naval veteran of the Vietnam War. And there’s Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute (the think tank linked to the centrist-leaning Democratic Leadership Council), whom Kerry tapped to draft his January 21 Georgetown speech. He’s also been in touch with Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign-policy studies at the Brookings Institution. O’Hanlon spoke out in favor of continued "containment" of Saddam Hussein in February 2001, but came out in support of Bush’s Iraq policy after the president addressed the United Nations on September 12, 2002. Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on October 2, 2002, O’Hanlon predicted between 1000 and 5000 American casualties in a war with Iraq."

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/talking_politics/documents/02831950.htm

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