They're a sock puppet of the American Enterprise Institute (see...

They're a sock puppet of the American Enterprise Institute (see AEI logo). Neocon bilge.



The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research AEI was founded in 1943 and is based in Washington, DC. It has been called the Godfather of Washington neo-conservative lobby groups and is America's richest, largest and most influential think tank.^{[citation needed]} It was regarded as one of the George W. Bush administration's closest allies. It has the CEOs of both pharmaceutical giant Merck and of The Dow Chemical Company, as well as the Vice President of Exxon, among the many corporate figures on its Board of Trustees.^[1] Several of the leading lights of the Bush administration, most notably Vice President Dick Cheney, directly connect to AEI, which also shares its address with Project for the New American Century (PNAC), and the neoconservative publication Weekly Standard. Like PNAC, the AEI was regarded as a promoter of George W. Bush's war agenda, including the war in Iraq. More recently it has defied corporate funders in pushing for a more aggressive stance against Iran. There is a crossover in staff between the AEI, the PNAC, and the Bush Administration. Worryingly for its critics, the AEI is, along with the Heritage Foundation, the most cited of the American think tanks.