America's Neoconservatives A Shattered Dream
John Bolton, the soon to be former US ambassader to the UN, was one of the signatories to the neoconservative manifest.
Paul Wolfowitz, former US Secrety of Defense and current World Bank President, was a co-architect of the Iraq war in the Pentagon.
Richard Perle: The former Pentagon advisor pushed fervently for the Iraq war.
Richard Armitage: Also a signatory of the neocon manifest, Armitage also served for years as deputy secretary of state.
William Kristol: The intellectual leader of the neoconservatives was a founder of the "Project for the New American Century," which deeply influenced the Bush administration's foreign policy.
Conservative essayist Robert Kagan is a senior associate at the liberal think tank Carnegie Endowment for Interntional Peace and was also a co-founder of the "Project for the New American Century."
Under George H.W. Bush, William Bennett served as the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, serving as the country's "drug czar." He is also the author of a number of best-selling tomes on his views of America, including 2003's "Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism."
Francis Fukuyama, the Repulicans' once favorite idealogue, has since parted ways with the neocons and abandoned his previous stances.
