"CPD Defends Mithal al-Alusi" George P. Shultz, R. James Woolsey, et. al.
October 15, 2008
Dear Secretary Rice and Ambassador Crocker:
We, the undersigned members of the Committee on the Present Danger (which seeks to stiffen American resolve to confront terrorism and the ideologies that drive it), wish to express our distress and concern over the Iraq Council of Representatives’ mistreatment of Mithal al-Alusi, leader of the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, and to urge you to condemn its action in the strongest terms...
The Committee on the Present Danger is a non-partisan organization with one goal – to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it.
The "danger" we face – which was "present" well before most Americans realized it on September 11, 2001 – is the determination of militant Islamists to impose their totalitarian views on, first, the Muslim world, and, then, the world at large.
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