July 1, 2008 (LPAC)--Most people immediately think of Dick Cheney and the neo-cons when they hear about the privatization of the U.S. military and the Revolution in Military Affairs. Instead, they should think of Al Gore. As part of Gore's 1990's fascist Reinventing Government scheme, to make the state function "more like a corporation," Gore assembled a task force to diminish the government role in the U.S. military, while putting crucial in-house functions, like logistics, and technology, increasingly into the hands of the private sector. The program is said to serve the public by cutting excess government expenditures, but it is really a move for fascist austerity, under the hypocritical guise of "saving the taxpayer money." Yet, if Gore, who is currently much fatter than Hitler's Hermman Goering, were really concerned about saving money on defense, why cast the decisive vote for Operation Desert Storm in 1991? Why lobby the President to attack Iraq in 1998, or push the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999?

The Task Force on Defense Reform was set up in 1993 as part of Gore's National Performance Review (NPR), which sought to make the government "leaner and smaller" by "inject[ing] competition into everything we do" and searching "for market, not administrative solutions" to budget problems. In 1998, NPR was transformed into the Confederacy-styled National Partnership for Reinventing Government, Gore and Gingrich's British brain-child, claiming to be "longest-running and most successful reform effort in U.S. history to date."

The Task Force on Defense Reform published its recommendations in 1997 for cutting or eliminating defense organizations and personnel, reducing military expenditures by contracting military functions to the private sector, and setting up the devastating BRAC military base closures of 2001-2005. After publication, the Task Force and its recommendations were integrated into the Defense Science Board (DSB) as a sub-task force to conduct independent assessments of "defense reform." The Defense Science Board is a highly influential advisory committee on defense strategy, advising the Secretary and Undersecretary of Defense, the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (DATL), and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Of note, a number of the members of the DSB overlap as members of the board of directors of BAE, and DARPA.

The head of Gore's defense task force and top ranking Defense Department figure, John Hamre, resigned in 2000, becoming the President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he later teamed up with the Nazi, Felix Rohatyn. The LaRouche Youth Movement intersected Hamre at Rohatyn's March 2006 CSIS conference on PPP's, where he dodged the subject of military privatization when the LYM raised the question about. Rohatyn, of course, is infamous for his comments at a 2004 Middlebury College conference on private militaries, where he said, "The issue of what is it that only the government can do; it's probably to kill people. But I don't think there are that many issues where the government can act where the private sector can't play a role…"

To get a sense of what began to play out under Gore's direction and was picked up again by Cheney, the following are excerpts from the November 10, 1997 Defense Reform Initiative briefing with the Futurist freaks, Al Gore and Secretary of Defense, William Cohen:

Gore: We agreed on the problem. The nation needs to spend tens of billions of dollars to replace aging military equipment. This is an urgent requirement. That money has to come from somewhere other than borrowing for bigger budget deficits.

What really excited me was that Secretary Cohen shared my own bone-deep conviction about the solution to this problem. That we have the money we need to keep America's military forces fully modern and fully capable -- the strongest in the world by far, but that we are spending too much of our defense money on the wrong stuff. On paperwork, for example, and on industrial-age bureaucracy that is too expensive and too slow to keep pace in the world today… In short, Secretary Cohen and I agreed that what we need is businesslike government and that is, coincidentally, our theme in this year's reinventing government operation. This is the latest progress report on reinventing government, and it is all about what we have been learning from America's best companies. It's full of stories about private companies teaching government agencies how to work better and cost less, and lots of the stories in the book are about defense…All the stories are about capitalizing on America's strong free market economy -- about creating businesslike government.

Cohen: We are going to compete with commercial activities… [W]e should be competing many of the functions currently being carried out by government, we should be competing those for the private sector. If you look at the years in the past right up until 1996, you can see we haven't done a very good job of putting out these functions for competition in the private sector. Starting this year you will note a dramatic increase in the competitions that are now taking place. We have had a tenfold increase in competition which has, in fact, benefitted the American taxpayer. As a result of these competitions which the private sector and the public sector tend to split almost evenly so that the public sector can demonstrate it can compete with private sector organizations as well, 50 percent of the time, but ultimately, we still benefit in the long run because the taxpayer is benefitted.

We are going to eliminate excess infrastructure. You've heard me talk about this before. We need to have at least two more BRAC rounds. In our Defense Reform Initiative, we're calling for additional rounds in the years 2001 and 2005.

As LPAC reported earlier, London's choice wrecking ball for the Democratic party and U.S.A, Al Gore, is already positioning himself to step in as the "compromise candidate" if Hillary Clinton, and "Born to Lose" Obama are eliminated before the August convention.