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{{#badges: CoalSwarm}}'''Newton Leroy Gingrich''' (born June 17, 1943) is a [[neoconservative]] politician who is best known as the Speaker of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from 1995 to 1999. As a co-author of the notorious 1994 [[Contract With America]], Gingrich was in the forefront of the [[Republican Party]]'s success in the 1994 Congressional elections, and was subsequently elected Speaker. After he returned to private life, Gingrich remained active in neoconservative politics, becoming a fellow at both the [[American Enterprise Institute]] (AEI)<ref>American Enterprise Institute [http://www.aei.org/scholar/newt-gingrich/ Scholars: Newt Gingrich, Senior Fellow,] American Enterprise Institute, accessed December 14, 2011</ref> and the [[Hoover Institution]],<ref>Hoover Institute [http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/99summer/newt.html "Newt Gingrich appointed distinguished visiting fellow,"] Hoover Institution Newsletter, [[Stanford University]], Summer 1999</ref><ref>Hoover Institution [http://www.hoover.org/bios/gingrich.html Bio: Newt Gingrich,] Hoover Institution.</ref> two of the big guns in the neoconservative [[think tank]] world. He is reputed to be a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and to have ties to the [[Manhattan Institute for Policy Research]].
Gingrich also founded the [[Gingrich Group]], which, according to his personal website,<ref>Newt Gingrich [http://www.newt.org Newt.org] campaign website</ref> is "a communications and consulting firm that specializes in transformational change", and the [[Center for Health Transformation]], a Gingrich Group project launched in 2003.
*[[Hubbard Broadcasting]]: [[Stanley Hubbard]], a billionaire GOP donor from Minnesota, gave Gingrich's group $100,000. He owns radio and TV stations in several states.
== [[War in Iraq]] =="[Gingrich's] basic point: where are the Iraqi faces in the [[New Iraq]]? 'Americans can't win in [[Iraq]],' he says. 'Only Iraqis can win in Iraq'.<ref>John Barry. [http://www.msnbc.com/news/1002188.asp?0cv=CB20 "Dissent in the Bunker. Newt Gingrich, a quiet Rumsfeld confidant, thinks the U.S. went 'off a cliff' in Iraq,"] ''[[Newsweek]]''/MSNBC, December 15, 2003.</ref>
:"Gingrich argues that the [[Bush administration]] has been putting far too much emphasis on a military solution and slighting the political element. 'The real key here is not how many enemy do I kill. The real key is how many allies do I grow,' he says. 'And that is a very important metric that they just don't get.' He contends that the civilian-run [[Coalition Provisional Authority|CPA]] is fairly isolated and powerless, hunkered down inside its bunker in Baghdad. The military has the money and the daily contact with the locals. But it's using the same tactics in a guerrilla struggle that led to defeat in Vietnam."
===War in Iraq as WWIII?===
In July 2006, Bill Berkowitz reported for Inter Press Service: "For years, U.S. neoconservatives have been ratcheting up the rhetoric -- mostly in small gatherings and on partisan web sites -- claiming that [[terrorist]] activities around the world constituted the initial stages of a new world war. But during the past week or so ... Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the [[United States House of Representatives]], is using any platform available to him to convince the public that the U.S. is engaged in World War III. ... While Gingrich's media tour definitely thrust him back into the national political spotlight, it may have also given the public a sneak peek into the [[Republican Party]]'s political/marketing strategy for the [[U.S. congressional elections in 2006|November congressional elections]]: If the [[war on terrorism]] doesn't create a [[fear]]ful enough climate amongst voters, why not ratchet it up by mentioning the spectre of a World War III?" ... [[John Stauber]], co-author of the book, [[The Best War Ever]], told IPS "'You've got to call it something and five years after [[9/11]] with [[Osama bin Laden|Osama]] [bin Laden] still roaming free and [[Iraq]] an American quagmire, and the Republican Party in danger of losing control of Congress, this ploy makes marketing sense.'"<ref>Bill Berkowitz, [http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34039 "Bringing on "World War III,"] Inter Press Service, July 20, 2006.</ref>
==Contact information==
:Gingrich Communications<br>:1425 K Street, NW<br>:Suite 350<br>:Washington, DC 20005<br>:Phone: 202 587-5710<br>:URL: [http://www.newtnewtgingrich.org<br>URL: http://www.newtgingrich.org/<br>]:URL: [http://www.gingrichgroup.com/<br>www.gingrichgroup.com]:URL (American Solutions): [http://www.americansolutions.com/default.aspx<br>www.americansolutions.com/default.aspx]:URL (Winning the Future): [http://www.winningthefuture.net/<br>www.winningthefuture.net]
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