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http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/MissingLinkHowRightWingNeoConsCreatedDemocraticLeadershipCouncilByMicheleSteinberg.htm
Missing Link: How Right-Wing Neo-Cons
Created `Democratic Leadership Council'
by Michele Steinberg

Missing Link: How Right-Wing Neo-Cons Created
'Democratic Leadership Council'


In a May 21, 2003 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Donna Brazile,
the former campaign manager of the 2000 Gore-Lieberman campaign,
and co-author Timothy Bergreen blasted the Democratic Presidential
candidates for questioning the Iraq War "victory." Brazile, who
based her op-ed on a speech she had delivered to the SDUSA
conference, told Democrats, "We are AWOL on national security." To
correct that, she maintained, Democrats must adopt the policies of
"Sen. Scoop Jackson--the Democratic mentor of some of today's most
prominent Republican hawks."

As EIR reported on July 4, Brazile--a member of the Democratic
National Committee, which ostensibly makes all the major decisions
about funding, policy, and program for Democratic candidates--has
already forged a marriage with the Republican neo-cons at the
think-tank called the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Her colleagues there include the hard-core advocates of a "World
War IV," such as James Woolsey and Newt Gingrich, both members of
the Defense Policy Board.

Brazile's line was also pushed in a May 1 Washington Post op-ed
called "The Blair Democrats: Ready for Battle," by DLC leader Will
Marshall. He wrote, "The U.S.-led coalition's stunning success in
liberating Iraq is undoubtedly a triumph for President Bush. But
Karl Rove shouldn't get too giddy.... After all, four of the
leading Democratic Presidential contenders--Rep. Dick Gephardt and
Sens. Joseph Lieberman, John Kerry and John Edwards--not only
voted to support the war but also joined British Prime Minister
Tony Blair in demanding that Bush challenge the United Nations to
live up to its responsibilities to disarm Iraq.... Like Bush,
these Democrats did not shrink from the use of force to end
Hussein's reign of terror. Like Blair, they saw the Iraq crisis as
a test of Western resolve."

Few better exemplars exist to show that the DLC's "New Democrats"
are "a second Republican Party." Brazile, Al From, Will Marshall,
and the other DLC types who push the line that "after 9/11,
security matters above all," are showing their roots--as hard-core
neo-cons.