"What is the CFR, & why should we be concerned about the candidates involvement?"

The Council On Foreign Relations was founded in 1921, though there are earlier origins going back to about 1917. Their own website states that, "the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments." However, their is a very long list of claims and evidence to suggest that the CFR, is not quite what it appears to be.

Some of the claims made against the CFR include plans for a "one world government" or "new world order". Other claims say that the CFR is pushing for a merging of Canada, Mexico, and America into one "North American Union", effectively dissolving national sovereignty of the United States along with the Constitution, Bill Of Rights, and all the other things that Americans have been taught, "make America great". There are other claims still, that point to evidence that the CFR had an interest in "controlling American media" from it\'s very start.

Of the last claim, Texas Congressman Oscar Callaway wrote in the 1917 US Congressional Record that, "In March 1915, the J .P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and power interests, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press...They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached ; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness , militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interest of the purchasers." There are many more recent quotations made by members of the CFR, including David Rockefeller that give more support to this claim.

The claim that the CFR has an interest in merging the nations of Canada, Mexico and The United States is backed up in part when one looks at what was said by Bill Clinton\'s mentor, Prof. Carroll Quigley (also a CFR member) when he wrote, "The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the American Branch of a society which originated in England... (and) ...believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established". The issue of the North American Union it should be observed, has also appeared in the mainstream media with people like Lou Dobbs.

Then we have the claim that the Council On Foreign Relations and it\'s members are attempting to create a one world government. While there is again, a seemingly endless list of comments to be had straight from the horses mouth, I picked this one from Admiral Chester Ward, ex-CFR member and Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy. He stated in short that "The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government."

There have been more claims made against the CFR than can be listed in this piece, and there is an overwhelming mountain of evidence to support each one of those claims as well. Perhaps a closer review of the Council On Foreign Relations, it\'s intentions along with it\'s members is in order before we start casting ballots in 2008.