Wisconsin Project/Iraq Watch

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Jan 1 02:15:25 PST 2003



>All:
>
>Does anyone here know about these organizations and the people behind them?
>Iraq Watch, at iraqwatch.org, is a subsidary project of the Wisconsin
>Project on Nuclear Arms control--wisconsinproject.org--and is agressively
>*pro-regime change*. It looks as though there are only two people writing
>their analyses--Gary Milhollin and Kelly Motz.
>
>Basically, I smell a rat. But I've been wrong before.
>--
>Curtiss, likely just having PMS

Claudia Winkler, "The Good Activist: Gary Milhollin and the Wisconsin Project Have Helped Shape the Conversation on Renewed Weapons Inspections," _The Weekly Standard_ 10/09/2002, 12:00:00 AM, <http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/750rfolw.asp>.

***** ...In the middle of this dizzying dance is Gary Milhollin, founder of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. Milhollin himself is a complicated character. One of the main advocates dedicated to exposing and stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction, he is respected by colleagues in the anti-nuclear movement for his groundbreaking work. At the same time, with his hawkish views on U.S. foreign policy, he is friendly with the national security establishment....

In the weird world of global weapons sales, Milhollin maintains a cordial relationship with many of the players. Subscribers to his database include the CIA, the Pentagon, the Commerce Department, the government of Japan, and various multinational corporations....

Despite this combative attitude toward businesses that help foreign nations build weapons programs, Milhollin is no subversive. He supports sanctions and the threat of force against Iraq as long as Saddam Hussein refuses to comply with weapons inspectors. And he takes a laissez-faire attitude toward the NATO countries' weapons, focusing his monitoring efforts only on budding military powers the U.S calls "rogues."...

<http://www.progressive.org/conniff498.htm> ***** -- Yoshie

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