Beardedbruce, you owe us all an apology for trying to insult our intelligence. You post a link to a mouthpiece for the most conservative membership of the republican party and expect us to accept that as news? The guys who are behind Bush and his obscene attack on various nations around the world?

The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree.

A little information about World Tribune.com, the place where you found this bit of "news":

World Tribune.com

Board of Advisors

Arnold Beichman, International Security
Timothy Brown, Latin America
Bill Gertz, U.S. National Security
Thomas Henriksen, Military Affairs
Assad Homayoun, The Persian Gulf
Christopher Holton, U.S. National Security and Economics
Herbert London, Future Studies
Scott McCollum, Technology

Do a smallish search and you find that these guys are all part of the Hoover Institute, a conservative think tank at Stanford U. In case it's too much trouble to go there to look for it, bruce, I'll put the mission statement of the group here for you:

Now more than four decades old, Herbert Hoover's 1959 statement to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University on the purpose and scope of the Hoover Institution continues to guide and define its mission in the twenty-first century:


"This Institution supports the Constitution of the United States, its Bill of Rights and its method of representative government. Both our social and economic systems are based on private enterprise from which springs initiative and ingenuity.... Ours is a system where the Federal Government should undertake no governmental, social or economic action, except where local government, or the people, cannot undertake it for themselves.... The overall mission of this Institution is, from its records, to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life. This Institution is not, and must not be, a mere library. But with these purposes as its goal, the Institution itself must constantly and dynamically point the road to peace, to personal freedom, and to the safeguards of the American system."


The principles of individual, economic, and political freedom; private enterprise; and representative government were fundamental to the vision of the Institution's founder. By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals.

Their way of being a "voice of experience against making of war" is a little shakey right now. Their approach seems akin to using dynamite to blow out forest fires, judging from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Hoover Institute Executive Committee:

Executive Committee
W. Kurt Hauser, Chairman
Peter B. Bedford, Vice Chairman
Martin Anderson
Wendy Borcherdt
Paul Lewis Davies III
William C. Edwards
Everett Hauck
Heather Higgins
Herbert Hoover III
Peyton M. Lake
Bowen H. McCoy
Robert J. Rishwain
Richard M. Scaife
Tad Taube
Thomas J. Tierney
David T. Traitel
Walter E. Williams

And surprise, surprise, take a look at the overview of their fellows and who turns up but Dr. Condoleezza Rice (on Leave), along with the late Ronald Reagan. George Schultz and Margaret Thatcher are on the list, along with Pete Wilson and Newt Gingrich to name a few.

Bruce, just because you can find something on the Internet doesn't make it TRUE. One must always evaluate the source.

SRS