Saving the Surge To Save McCain Presidential Hopes...Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Date Line 2007…Prospects for Republicans are slim, and the only real chance of putting a president in the White House (McCain) is to change the average Americans view of the war, convince them that we are winning, that the SURGE is working, even if it is not.

MoveOn.org winning the airwaves with their truthful, but hurtful General Betrayus campaign has the Republicans seething mad, and desperate to flip public perceptions needs a major Propaganda Campaign, its goals simple, but perhaps impossible to attain:

• call attention to the surge’s remarkable progress; even if it was not true.

• underscore the necessity of giving our forces the support, resources, and independence to achieve their mission; even though said mission wasn’t and still is not clear.

• remind Congress and the American public of the dire consequences a hasty retreat from Iraq would mean to national security and world peace. In other words, scare the hell out of them, use fear as a way to control and manipulate public perceptions and sentiments towards a wrong sighted war.

Basically, to have any chance of keeping the White House meant changing the publics perceptions about the war in Irag, what was needed was a Propaganda Campaign to make the war popular again. Enter the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and their General Betrayus Mission project, specifically designed to thwart MoveOn.ORG, designed to fool the public, congress, with the hopes of returning John McCain to the White House.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies leapt into action on July 9^th of 2007, launching the Iraq Project coalition in partnership with a carefully chosen partnership of veterans organizations, families that had lost loved ones but were supportive of the war effort, pro-mission organizations, and their own formidable line up of propagandist (presented on various news networks as noted military and foreign policy scholars) who are all conveniently in house members of “The Foundation for Defense of Democracies”.

Sure many of my readers think I am a bit OFF BASED here, or have perhaps drank too many glasses of Merlot this evening, but tell me how many members of the cast of characters you recognize from VARIOUS American News channels on various channels:

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=516489&Itemid=370

Link above is Betrayus Propaganda Program.

Leadership Council
Steve Forbes Board Member CEO Forbes Magazine	Judge Louis J. Freeh Fmr. Director of the FBI
Newt Gingrich Fmr. Speaker of the House	Max M. Kampelman Fmr. Ambassador
Bill Kristol Editor Weekly Standard	Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) U.S. Senate
Robert "Bud" McFarlane Fmr. National Security Advisor	R. James Woolsey Fmr. Director of the CIA
Advisors
Gary Bauer President American Values	Rep. Eric Cantor Chairman (R-VA) Task Force on Terrorism
Frank Gaffney President Center for Security Policy	Gene Gately Former Intelligence and Defense Official
Charles Jacobs President American Anti-Slavery Group	General P.X. Kelley USMC (RET)
Charles Krauthammer Syndicated Columnist	Hon. Richard D. Lamm Fmr. Governor Colorado
Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland Former Defense Department Official	Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA) Former U.S. Senator
Richard Perle Former Chair of the Defense Policy Board and FDD Advisor	Steven Pomerantz Former Assistant Director FBI
Oliver "Buck" Revell Former Associate Deputy Director FBI
Chairman Emeritus
Jack Kemp Chairman Emeritus Fmr. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
In Memoriam
Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Founding Member, 2001-2006 Fmr. Ambassador to the UN
Staff and Senior Fellows
Khairi Abaza Senior Fellow	Bob Arotsky Chief Financial Officer
Tony Badran Research Fellow, Levant	Amb. Richard Carlson Vice Chairman
Mark Dubowitz Executive Director	Sasha Eckstein Special Assistant
Patricia Fancher Development Associate	Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Vice President of Research
Joshua Goodman Director, Research	Laura Grossman Research Analyst
Avi Jorisch Terrorism Expert	Orde Kittrie Senior Fellow
Burak Kuntay Visiting Fellow	Dr. Michael Ledeen Freedom Scholar
Clifford D. May President	Andrew C. McCarthy Chair, FDD's Center for Law and Counterterrorism
Bill McCarthy Senior Vice-President of Communications and Operations	Megan Ortagus Director of Policy Coalitions
Dr. J. Peter Pham Senior Fellow: Africa	Dr. Walid Phares Director, FDD's Future of Terrorism Project
Cara Rosenthal Senior Manager, Development	Claudia Rosett Journalist-in-Residence Director, FDD's Investigative Reporting Project
Cindy D. Tan Research Analyst	Jean Thurman
Victoria Toensing Fmr. Chief Counsel to Sen. Intelligence Committee	Shlok Vaidya Energy Security Research Analyst
Dr. Robert Zubrin Senior Fellow FDD's Energy and Security Project
Adjunct Fellows
Dr. Jonathan Adelman Professor University of Denver	Bill Ardolino Military Analyst
Richard Z. Chesnoff Journalist	Paul Crespo Former Marine Corps Officer and Military Attache
Tanya Gilly Member of the Iraqi National Assembly	Olivier Guitta Counterterrorism and Foreign Affairs consultant
Ethan Gutmann Adjunct Fellow The Foundation for Defense of Democracies	Michael I. Krauss Professor of Law George Mason University School of Law
Agota Kuperman U.S. Foreign Service (ret.)	Joel Mowbray Journalist
Bill Roggio Editor, The Long War Journal	Dr. Frederic Smoler Professor Sarah Lawrence College

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