"Not very many," said Dick Cheney in 1994, as he defended the decision by President Bush the Smarter not to march on Baghdad.
So what changed the 1994 Rational Cheney into the 2001-09 Insane War Criminal Cheney?
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Saddam wasn't worth one dead American then and isn't now. However, back in 1994 Mr Cheney hadn't involved himself with Halliburton, and was therefore not in the Oil Binniss.
ReplyDeleteBut it seems that a lot of the intellectual firepower for these wars has come from the American Wnterprise Institute. Who funds them?
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ReplyDeleteThe American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is an extremely influential, pro-business right-wing think tank founded in 1943 by Lewis H. Brown. It promotes the advancement of free enterprise capitalism[1], and succeeds in placing its people in influential governmental positions. It is the center base for many neo-conservatives.
Between 1985 and 2001, AEI received $29,653,933 from the following funding sources:
* Carthage Foundation
* Castle Rock Foundation
* Earhart Foundation
* John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
* Scaife Foundations (Scaife Family, Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)
* Smith Richardson Foundation
Amounts contributed by the Coors Foundation are not included.
Funding has come from many other sources, such as Amoco, the Kraft Foundation, and the Procter & Gamble Fund. AEI, unlike some think tanks, has no endowment - something which has led the organization into financial embarrassment in 1985 when its operating budget outstripped its donations by 25 percent (Newsweek, 1984).
Corporate donations are not public, but it is known that during 1997, Philip Morris contributed $100,000 to the Institute [94]; and during 2005, ExxonMobil contributed $252,500 (including an estimated 50% of ExxonMobil's donation to the AEI Brookings "Joint Center".) [95].
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good website. I'm probably going to write a creed about the American Institute for War Criminals one of these days.
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