[Peace-discuss] Response to attack on an anti-war vote in Congress

[E. Wayne Johnson]

*Here's a rundown on  some of members of IAVA's Board of Directors.
*

*Yannick Marchal.* Yannick Marchal is currently an exotic derivatives 
trader at Deutsche Bank in London in the Foreign Exchange Complex Risk 
group. He co-founded IAVA with Paul in 2004 and acted as IAVA's Chief 
Operating Officer through December 2005. Prior to his time at IAVA, 
Yannick worked in the Investment Banking and Equity Research divisions 
at JPMorgan for over three years.

*Wes Moore*. Wes Moore is an investment professional for Citigroup, 
working directly for the head of the Global Banking Division. A Former 
White House Fellow, 2006-2007, Wes served as Special Assistant to 
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

*Les Gelb* was director of Policy Planning and Arms Control for 
International Security Affairs at the Department of Defense from 1967 to 
1969, winning the Pentagon's highest award, the Distinguished Service 
Award. Robert McNamara appointed Gelb as director of the project that 
produced the controversial Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War.  He was 
diplomatic correspondent at The New York Times from 1973 to 1977.

He served as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter 
Administration from 1977 to 1979, serving as director of the Bureau of 
Politico-Military Affairs and winning the Distinguished Honor Award, the 
highest award of the US State Department.  He returned to the Times in 
1981; from then until 1993, he was in turn its national security 
correspondent, deputy editorial page editor, editor of the Op-Ed Page, 
and columnist. This period included his leading role on the Times team 
that won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1986 for a 
six-part comprehensive series on the "Star Wars" Strategic Defense 
Initiative).

Gelb became President of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1993 and as 
of 2005 is its President Emeritus.  He supported the Iraq War and later 
claimed his "initial support for the war was symptomatic of unfortunate 
tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition 
and incentives to support wars to retain political and professional 
credibility."

He serves as the chairman of the advisory board for the progressive 
foreign policy think tank, National Security Network, on the board of 
directors of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, member of the 
board of directors of the Truman Scholarship program, board of directors 
of the Nixon Center and the advisory board of United Against Nuclear Iran.

*Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director.*  Paul Rieckhoff, a graduate of 
Amherst College (B.A. in Politics, 1998), enlisted in the U.S. Army 
Reserves on September 15, 1998. In June of 2002, he volunteered for 
active duty and a place in the pending war in Iraq. Rieckhoff was 
working as an investment banker at JPMorgan prior to his deployment toIraq.

On 11/28/2011 1:05 AM, David Green wrote:
> I've attached a Word Doc with a screenshot of the article.
> DG
>
>     *From:* Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
>     *To:* Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>     *Sent:* Sunday, November 27, 2011 10:25 AM
>     *Subject:* [Peace-discuss] Response to attack on an anti-war vote
>     in Congress
>
>     The local Congressional representative, Tim Johnson, has a piece
>     in this morning's News-Gazette in response to an underhanded
>     attack by a pro-war Democratic front group that calls itself "Iraq
>     and Afghanistan Veterans of America." (The local chapter of Iraq
>     Veterans Against the War has been misled into repeating IAVA's
>     attack.)
>
>     Even Johnson's opponents admit that his staff devotes a lot of
>     time to constituent services, and he easily refutes the charge
>     that he has been inattentive to veterans' concerns.  The real
>     target of the IAVA group is of course his anti-war voting record.
>
>     I can't find Johnson's piece  on the increasingly inadequate
>     News-Gazette website, so I'll try to copy it and post it here
>     later.  --CGE
>
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