I borrowed this from http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/05-26-04/discussion.cgi.30.html
For your further reference, here are some of the key neoconservatives:
Paul Wolfowitz
Current Deputy Secretary of Defense. Co-wrote the infamous 1992 draft “Defense Planning Guidance” that promoted US military dominance over Eurasia and preemptive strikes against countries suspected of developing WMDs. The draft was deemed so outrageous that it had to be almost completely rewritten. Following 9/11, substantial parts of it became key points in the 2002 US National Security Strategy.
Michael Ledeen
One of the most radical neocons and special adviser to Karl Rove in foreign policy matters. Ledeen co-founded the Coalition for Democracy in Iran in 2001. Quote from a 2003 address for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: “[T]he time for diplomacy is at an end; it is time for a free Iran, free Syria, and free Lebanon.” Ledeen is an admirer of totalitarian political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) and author of the book “Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli’s Iron Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago”. In his 1972 book Universal Fascism, he promoted the fascist movement as a right-wing revolution fueled by “a desire to renew”.
Richard Perle
Nicknamed “Prince of Darkness” for his tough stance on foreign policy issues. Founding member of the Jewish Institute for National Security and the Center for Security Policy. Until March 2003, Chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. Co-authored a 1996 memorandum for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” that reveals parts of the “creative destruction” strategy for the Middle East, starting with Iraq.
Douglas Feith:
Current Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Director at the Center for Security Policy. Former protégé of Richard Perle’s; well-known as a supporter of the Israeli right-wing Likud Party. In 1997, Feith and his father were honored for their “service to Israel and the Jewish people” by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) at its 100th anniversary banquet.
William Kristol
Son of neocon “godfather” Irving Kristol, chief of staff under the Reagan and Bush I administrations, editor of the Weekly Standard. Founder and current Chairman of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), a think tank uniting right-wing Republicans, Christian fundamentalist leaders, and neocons in their pursuit of global US military dominance.
Lewis “Scooter” Libby
Current chief of staff, national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, adviser with the RAND corporation’s Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, founding member of the PNAC. Libby co-signed the 2000 report titled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses-Strategies, Forces, and Resources for a New Century” that urged for an invasion of Iraq. He also co-authored the above mentioned ’92 draft “Defense Planning Guidance” for then-Defense Secretary Cheney.
Elliott Abrams
Special assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Southwest Asia, Near East, and North African Affairs. Worked for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson and held various State Department posts under Ronald Reagan. Married to Rachel Decter, daughter of Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter. Abrams pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress about the Iran-Contra affair in 1991 and was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Max Boot
Editorial features editor at the Wall Street Journal, Olin senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and many other newspapers. Most recently, Boot authored “The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power” (2002). Publisher’s Weekly, which reviewed the book, commented that Boot “has a reputation as a fire-breathing polemicist and unabashed imperialist.”
Robert Kagan
Former principal speechwriter to Secretary of State George P. Shultz (1984-85); hired by Elliott Abrams as deputy for policy in the State Department’s Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. Co-founder of the PNAC; senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP); writer for various newspapers. Kagan wrote the bestseller “Of Paradies and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order”. His wife, Victoria Nuland, is Dick Cheney’s deputy national security adviser.