[[United States of America|USA]] ### Original 25 signatories given positions in Bush Administration Of the 25 original signatories of PNAC, 14 members were given positions in the [Bush Administration](https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Globalisation:_Bush_Administration&action=edit&redlink=1 "Globalisation: Bush Administration (page does not exist)"). - Elliott Abrams - Appointed to National Security Council. He was first appointed as Chief Human Rights Officer then as Senior Director of North East and North African Affairs. In 2005, he became Bush's Deputy Assisstant and the deputy national security adviser for global democracy strategy. [[16]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-16) - Dick Cheney – Vice President of the United States. He is also a former fellow of the AEI.[[17]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-17) - Eliot Cohen – Member of Defense Policy Board. Counselor to Condoleezza Rice. In an article from 2005, Cohen continues to defend the decision to go to war in Iraq, however he criticises America’s ability to carry out the invasion successfully.[[18]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-18). - Paula Dobriansky – Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global affairs. Dobriansky was also a signatory of the letter to President Clinton urging him to take action in Iraq in 1998 [[19]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-19). - Aaron Friedberg- Vice President Cheney’s Deputy National Security Advisor [[20]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-20). - Francis Fukuyama- Former Member of Bush’s Council on Bioethics. Although a PNAC signatory who had campaigned for the invasion of Iraq, Fukuyama changed his opinion after it became clear that the invasion was turning into ‘an increasingly bloody counterinsurgency conflict’, noting the need for changes in American foreign policy. [[21]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-21). - Fred Iklé - Member of Defense Policy Board. Iklé was also on the AEI's advisory council on foreign policy. He is also a member of the board of governers for the Smith Richardson Foundation- a foundation which funds the AEI. [[22]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-22). - I.Lewis Libby - Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Cheney (2001-2005). Libby was "instrumental in shaping the foreign policy of the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11". [[24]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-24). - Dan Quayle - Defense Board Member[[25]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-25). - Peter Rodman - Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (2001-2007). Rodman was deputy assistant for national security affairs for both Reagan and George Bush senior. He was also a signatory of early PNAC letters urging President Clinton to take action in Iraq.[[26]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-26). - Henry Rowen – Member of Defense Policy Board [[27]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-27). - Donald Rumsfeld – Former Secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld was "one of the key architects and promoters of the war in Iraq", and is known for his misleading stories about Iraq before the invasion. [[28]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-28). - Paul Wolfowitz – Deputy Secretary of Defense Department (2001-2005). Chair of International Security Advisory Board [[29]](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#cite_note-29).