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  Right Web | Profile | Danielle Pletka
Danielle Pletka established herself as a foreign policy hawk while working as a reporter for Insight Magazine during the George H.W. Bush administration, and later as a member of the professional staff for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the Clinton administration, serving as the committee's Middle East specialist.
Pletka is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger, which in its second reincarnation commits itself on the side of the “free world” in a world war against Islamic terrorism.
In October 2005, Pletka wrote that the Bush administration was not fully committing itself to the war on terrorism and the promotion of democracy in the Middle East.
rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/3273   (1150 words)

  
 Danielle Pletka - SourceWatch
Danielle Pletka (born June 12, 1963 in Melbourne, Australia) is the vice-president for Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Pletka ranks as one of the early neo-conservatives, and is also an associate of Martin Indyk.
Pletka is thought to be a likely candidate to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the second George W. Bush administration.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Danielle_Pletka   (396 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Foreign Policy & Bush's Second Term
Danielle Pletka, vice president of the American Enterprise Institute for foreign and defense policy studies, was online to discuss foreign policy under the President Bush's second term.
Danielle Pletka: I don't believe that the Bush doctrine is a relic of the Cold War.
Danielle Pletka: It's almost impossible to know, because the Europe of the next ten years isn't the Europe of the last 10 years.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A29011-2004Nov5?language=printer   (2222 words)

  
 CLAO Articles and Letters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Danielle Pletka, Assistant to the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jesse Helms, point to the disarray within the Syrian-controlled Lebanese government vis-a-vis US policy in Lebanon.
Pletka had demanded the reopening of the investigation into the bombing of the Marines barracks, the US embassy and the French military headquarters in 1983.
Pletka referred to the Lebanese government as a puppet in the hands of Syria and the Syrian Intelligence Services, equating the Syrian occupation with the Israeli occupation, and comparing the relations between Syria and Lebanon to a master-slave relationship.
www.clao.com /articl4.html   (325 words)

  
 Cheating The American Public
Pletka is reportedly close to Dennis Ross and particularly a fellow Australian, Martin Indyk.
Pletka arranged the two Senate Hearings on Martin Indyk when he was appointed Ambassador to Israel and recently as Assistant Sec.
Pletka has already invited well-known Jewish Leftists who are infamous for their hostility to Israel.
www.gamla.org.il /english/article/1998/feb/win4.htm   (1552 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
PLETKA: OK, but in one of the trucks, in one of the labs, they did find chemicals that were inconsistent with hydrogen production and were consistent with biological weapons production.
PLETKA: I think it's always very, very difficult to take intelligence, which is by its nature not science but art, it's based on listening to people, it's based on overhead photographs, and it's very hard to put together what you would call a case.
PLETKA: Well, it's actually an important question, because with the things that we've learned, things we knew that before the war as well, about the mass graves, about the atrocities, about the horror of everyday life under Saddam, we do have to ask ourselves, you know, is it vitally important.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0305/29/i_qaa.03.html   (2424 words)

  
 Overthrow Saddam?: A Debate - Middle East Quarterly - June 1999
Pletka: He counts on the Sunni center of the country being with him—afraid of the opposition that is best organized, meaning SAIRI [the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq] in the south and the Kurds in the north.
Pletka: Yes, the INC is the umbrella structure that exists and already has a leadership in place, though perhaps not a leadership that everybody loves.
Pletka: We all seem fundamentally to agree about some of the strategies that are necessary and the fact that there is a comprehensive strategy necessary, the fact that we need to follow different tracks, and try equally hard on each of them hoping that one of them will deliver the desired outcome.
www.meforum.org /article/462   (6191 words)

  
 John Pike and Danielle Pletka discuss the Iraqi prisoner abuse controversy
PLETKA: Well, I think that's a call that the president of the United States gets to make and I don't, but clearly there have been some problems in communication between the Pentagon and the White House, between the Pentagon and the Congress.
PLETKA: The gates at Guantanamo are open in the sense that it is open to visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Danielle Pletka is vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI, the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, also in Washington.
www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2004/040506-prisoner-abuse.htm   (2003 words)

  
 PM - Turkey rejects US military
ALISON CALDWELL: Danielle Pletka is the Vice-President of Foreign and Defence Policy with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
DANIELLE PLETKA: Clearly, we'd have to find some way to get in to northern Iraq even with light forces, and that would require some planning and some logistics.
Danielle Pletka says it will be costlier, riskier and bloodier.
www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s798255.htm   (934 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Assessing the Iraqi Offer -- September 17. 2002
You mention that, Danielle mentioned that what President Bush is after is regime change, which I would point out to you has nothing to do with weapons inspections and certainly has nothing to do with the mandate of the United Nations.
DANIELLE PLETKA: First of all it's a disgraceful staple of foreign policy that we seek stability through dictators, and so I think if we get rid of Saddam Hussein and we manage to follow through and replace him with someone better, that is a moral high ground to seek.
DANIELLE PLETKA: The policy of toppling Saddam doesn't have to do with the fact that Saddam is not a nice guy or we don't like him.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec02/iraq_9-17.html   (1898 words)

  
 Transition 2005: Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East Peace Process - Council on Foreign Relations
Danielle Pletka, an old friend of mine, vice president for foreign policy and defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute [AEI].
And Danielle is right as well that the ultimate disposition of all of these enterprises will have to be addressed in permanent-status negotiations.
PLETKA: Again, and Aaron can tell you, and Ed can tell you better than I can, that this has been the object of many, many discussions: well, maybe not all, but some, and how this incrementalism is an extraordinarily dangerous thing.
www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=7732   (9291 words)

  
 Danielle Pletka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In an op-ed piece defending Ahmed Chalabi, Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute writes that “throughout the 1990s, Chalabi was regularly accused of malfeasance by his enemies,” and asserts that the conviction in Jordan (see April 9, 1992) “has never been documented.” [Los Angeles Times, 6/4/2004]
Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, authors the commentary “The Hawks and the Doves Are Aflutter over US Iran Policy.” Pletka provides a number of recommendations.
In response to a BBC request for her views on the crisis in Iran, Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute says: “The longer we wait and the more we negotiate, the longer Iran has to pursue a covert program....
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=danielle_pletka   (1542 words)

  
 CNN.com
If you want to take your farm analogy and say that a soldier should be able to talk more clearly about what kind of gun he should carry or how his military unit should operate, that would be one question.
PLETKA: I don't think it was a political masterstroke, to be fair.
PLETKA: I don't think that, in any circumstance, we are going to be moving forward unilaterally.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0209/19/tl.00.html   (6439 words)

  
 Council for a Community of Democracies
In light of this, Pletka expresses dismay that Presidential Candidate John Kerry has said it will not be his priority to continue the campaign to promote Middle East democracy.
Instead, she notes that Kerry has said that he would urge stability in the Middle East.
Pletka argues that with the low levels of economic success and high levels of illiteracy, violence and repression, the benefits of stability are nowhere to be found.
www.ccd21.org /articles/bush_kerry_middleeast.htm   (566 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
DANIELLE PLETKA, AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: Well, on the question that you asked about whether this is bin Laden, I agree with Phyllis.
PLETKA: Yes, but we -- all grownups need to consider the messenger, and I think the people of the world understand that there's a difference between George Bush, Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden.
PLETKA: I do believe it, but I think it's important to explain what partnerships between state sponsors, countries that sponsor terrorism and terrorist organizations is about in this day and age.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0302/12/tl.00.html   (5961 words)

  
 Danielle Pletka, US Wounded Itself when it Betrayed Chalabi, LAT
Los Angeles Times June 4, 2004 U.S. Only Wounded Itself When It Betrayed Chalabi By Danielle Pletka The recent reports detailing the alleged perfidy of Ahmad Chalabi actually say much more about his accusers in the U.S. government than they do about Chalabi himself.
As we search the region for others who will help us spread democracy and help us rid the Middle East of its many kings and presidents-for-life, we will discover that the word has spread: The United States is a faithless friend.
Danielle Pletka is vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
www.mail-archive.com /sam11@erols.com/msg00327.html   (772 words)

  
 A Spork in the Drawer: Pletka
Danielle Pletka: I have little doubt we will find WMD in Iraq.
I have some doubt that the group of inspectors brought on by Blix are the impartial group of experts we might hope for.
Danielle Pletka: Women will have the right to vote in Iraq, as they do in many Middle Eastern nations.
sporkinthedrawer.blogspot.com /2006/02/pletka.html   (611 words)

  
 VOA News Report
To answer those questions and others, we spoke with Danielle Pletka, Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, and a former staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
PLETKA: I think that they have concluded that after 10 years, containment isn't working.
BORGIDA: The views of Danielle Pletka, a Foreign Policy and Defense Expert at Washington's American Enterprise Institute.
globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-020731-2d1ef7af.htm   (944 words)

  
 The Washington Note
It is, however, entirely in keeping with Danielle's aggresive and self-promoting personality to float her own name; however, this ploy is usually counterproductive.
I will bet you a cup of coffee (to be collected at NAF) that Danielle doesn't get the job and that we later learn how her early and eager self-promotion damaged her prospects.
But after everyone called their favorite staffers on the Hill and otherwise tried to backtrack the story, they decided, as I did, that at this stage of the game the rumor in the LA Times was merely an act of self-promotion.
www.thewashingtonnote.com /archives/000185.php   (1981 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Bush big, bold, visionary, but is he out of touch?
Danielle Pletka, a Middle East scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said the speech "will play extraordinarily well with people and extraordinarily badly with leaders" who will feel under attack by Bush.
Pletka said that "it's important for the president to lead." She added, "Sometimes many of us in Washington wish that he were also implementing."
But, she said, "the truth is that it's not up to any president to lay out the detailed road map for how we get from here to there.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20031108-9999_1n8assess.html   (822 words)

  
 The World Today - Iraq looks to a sovereign future
ELEANOR HALL: Following yesterday's transfer of power in Iraq, The World Today has gone back to some of the players and pundits we've spoken to over the last two years, to see if they've changed their assessments of the situation there and whether they're optimistic or pessimistic about the future for Iraq.
Danielle Pletka, you're Vice President of Foreign and Defence Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and you're considered one of America's leading neo-conservatives.
I hope that I'm not always going to be optimistic only about the future, but can transition at some point to being optimistic about the present as well.
www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2004/s1142766.htm   (1580 words)

  
 The Washington Monthly
Pletka can barely even work up the energy to claim that Chalabi is innocent.
Instead she glosses over his treachery against the country that supported his cause for over a decade by blandly reminding us that that Chalabi "is a foreigner and owes us no fealty." In other words, even if he's guilty he barely even did anything wrong.
Pletka is, after all, a functionary of the Anti-American Enterprise Institutue.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2004_06/004087.php   (2889 words)

  
 A Tiny Revolution: The Secret Of Comedy Is, Of Course, Ti-MING
Danielle Pletka, vice president at the American Enterprise Institute and alpha neoconservative, recently wrote an angry op-ed for the Los Angeles Times slamming the CIA:
Beautifully enough, Pletka's op-ed was published on Tuesday, one day before the mosque in Samarra was blown up.
The only way this could have been better is if Pletka had written: "There were, for example, inaccurate warnings that I would write an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times that would make me look like an incredible moron."
www.tinyrevolution.com /mt/archives/000811.html   (443 words)

  
 Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Stupidest Woman in the World
Indeed, I think the case has been made the Bolton worked hard to supress information that might have let Bush and perhaps the public know that the claims about Saddam's WMD was pretty shaky at best, thus leading the U.S. into an unnecessary war.
But I guess that Pletka and the rest of the Republican crew demand that we all be concerned solely with someone's party affiliation and party loyalty.
Danielle Pletka: "This is a disgrace, the idea that temperament is suddenly important."
delong.typepad.com /sdj/2005/04/stupidest_woman.html   (994 words)

  
 'Just World News' by Helena Cobban: The Pentagon, Chalabi, and the cheerleaders
(Jim should have known better, but for some reason he's been foaming at the bit to have the US support Chalabi and topple Saddam for the past few years.) Danielle Pletka comes to mind, too: the former foreign-affairs aide for Senator Jesse Helms and now a recognized neocon in her own right.
I've read it a couple of times and still can't figure what exactly it is she's trying to say.
Let's face it, Danielle Pletka was never particularly bright or well-informed.
justworldnews.org /archives/000311.html   (410 words)

  
 War and Piece:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
AEI's vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, Danielle Pletka, the LA Times reports:
Another sign of Bush's views is expected to come soon when he chooses a replacement for Burns as head of the State Department's Bureau of Near East Affairs.
One possible replacement is Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington public policy center.
www.warandpiece.com /blogdirs/001367.html   (112 words)

  
 THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH: Passions Running High over Ahmed
Galbraith finds a pretty fired up Danielle Pletka when interviewing her for this article:
"Danielle Pletka, vice president of the AEI and an expert on the Iraqi opposition, angrily denounced State Department officials who disparage Chalabi.
Who gives a good goddamn what they think?" Pletka concedes that the State Department has a "deep bench," a lot of expertise and Arabic-speaking professionals.
www.belgraviadispatch.com /archives/003085.html   (255 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Pre-emption is effective tool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Think twice and avail yourself of diplomatic and political options while you have a chance.
Danielle Pletka is vice president of foreign- and defense-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
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www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2004-01-29-oppose_x.htm   (538 words)

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