Worthy of being called "America's Number One Neocon," McCain is a member (signatory)
of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), a rightwing extremist organization
formed in 1997 with the intent of overthrowing Saddam Hussein and dominating the world
with U.S. military power.

Of the above four GOP war-mongers -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz -- which
one is NOT a PNAC founder?   ANSWER: Bush, who was represented by his surrogate
brother Jeb, a signatory to the 1997 PNAC Declaration of Principles. 


Before joining the subversive PNAC cabal, Senator McCain was president of the New
Citizenship Project (NCP).  Founded in 1994 by PNAC organizer Bill Kristol, NCP was 
PNAC's parent and chief fundraising arm.

In 1998, McCain co-sponsored the Iraq Liberation Act.  Drafted by PNAC officials, it
declared that regime change in Iraq should become U.S. foreign policy.  To that end, the act
appropriated $97 million in U.S. military aid for the Iraqi National Congress (INC), a 
group of anti-Hussein Iraqi militants determined to instigate a national uprising in Iraq.  

In 2002, McCain was co-chair with Sen. Joe Lieberman of the White House-based Committee
for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI).  Established by PNAC in 2002, CLI continued to finance 
INC with millions of taxpayer dollars until shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, when CLI was
disbanded. 

Fnally, in 2004, McCain officially became a PNAC member by signing a letter from Bill Kristol's  organization hypocritically condemning Russian President Putin’s foreign policy for its return
to the “rhetoric of militarism and empire.”

Given McCain's unbending rightwing ideology, it should come as no surprise that old guard
PNAC members are foreign policy advisors on his 2008 presidential campaign team, such as
the following prominent neocons -- all potential members of a future McCain war council:

Richard L. Armitage:  PNAC signatory, former Bush 43 Deputy Secretary of State.  By his own
admission, Armitage was responsible for leaking CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to the press.

John R. Bolton: PNAC signatory, former U.S. ambassador to U.N.  Nomination to U.N. rejected
by Senate, but George W. Bush put him in place on a recess appointment.  Name floated as possible
 Secretary of State for McCain.  Advocates attacking Iran.

Max Boot: PNAC signatory, columnist, McCain speech writer.  Advocated attacking other Middle
East countries in addition to Iraq and Iran, including Syria.  Said McCain's "bellicose aura" could
"scare the snot out of our enemies," who "would be more afraid to mess with him" than with other
 then-potential presidential candidates.

Steve Forbes: PNAC founder, flat-tax fanatic

Robert Kagan: PNAC founder.

Bill Kristol:  PNAC founder and editor of the rightwing magazine, The Weekly Standard.  Has
consistently been wrong in his foreign policy analyses regarding Iraq. 

Randy Scheunemann:  PNAC signatory, co-director and executive director of Committee for
the Liberation of Iraq.  

Gary Schmitt:  PNAC signatory, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.  Defended
warrantless eavesdropping on Americans by claiming that U.S. Constitution "created a unitary
chief executive who could, in times of war or emergency, act with the decisiveness, dispatch and,
yes, secrecy, needed to protect the country and its citizens."

James Woolsey:  PNAC signatory, Director of the CIA, 1993-1995.

Robert B. Zollick:  PNAC signatory, President, World Bank.

For more information about PNAC and a list of its 225 signatories,
visit the nonprofit investigative website, www.FreedomCentralUSA.com.