Unveiled: Conservative Group Driving Middle East Wars
Big Coffers and a Rising Voice Lift a New Conservative Group
By Don Van Natta, Jr.
September 30, 2007
Freedom’s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former senior White House officials, made an audacious debut in late August when it began a $15 million advertising campaign designed to maintain Congressional support for President Bush’s troop increase in Iraq.
Founded this summer by a dozen wealthy conservatives, the nonprofit group is set apart from most advocacy groups by the immense wealth of its core group of benefactors, its intention to far outspend its rivals and its ambition to pursue a wide-ranging agenda. Its next target: Iran policy.
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Absolutely nothing this bunch stands for is about “freedom.” They are like an Internet censorship group naming itself “Guardians Of Free Thought For All” or a pornography group calling itself “American Liberty Art Center.”
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