Headline says it all. Unbelievable.

Here's a few more on par with this:

Hitler to Fight Racism
Pol Pot Takes Over Human Rights Agency


funny, bizarre, crazy. it just gets crazier and crazier. and check out Thomas Friedman's recent fictitious "open letter" to Islam written under George W. Bush's name. if you're just going to be a mouthpiece for the elite, why bother writing under your own name--just cut out the middle man and sign your writings by the names of the presidents and corporate executives whose interests your words serve anyway.

Will Henry Kissinger be investigating 9-11-Chile? You know, the coup he helped arrange that overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile in 1973.

I believe that Kissinger's appointment by Bush to head a commission that will investigate "investigate" 9-11 is nothing short of the Bush cabal giving the finger to the American people. It's message is "we're in control... and we don't care what you think!"

What the people of the world will make of this insanity I can only guess. My only hope is that Interpol is able to affect Kissinger's arrest for crimes against humanity before the man can do any more damage.

Mengla in charge of our health care
Papa doc in charge of the justice dept.
Sharon in charge of HUD.
What are we going to do about it? This is now a
declaired conflict to anyone who knows anything.
And so rapidly after the Intelligence services were
given the green light off the tree. Or is it just me?
I do remember Chille and their rude horrible ride into
disbelief and terror as the CIA at the bidding of IT&T
gave that creature Pinoche the reigns of that country.
No, it's got to be me. Forgive.

I heard that there's high unemployment, and a gulf between haves and have-nots in Chile. This is compounded by tremendous amounts of personal debt used to pay for the cost of living.

More significantly for this debate, IMHO, Chile's been the "lab" for neoliberal social policies, and the conservatives reporting back from there are about as objective as the socialists who'd go down to Nicaragua in the 80's to see how things where going there. That is, they are totally biased, and going in with blinders on.

i highly recommend that people check out the link 'Bush Admirer' left above. it's worth looking at just for the web design. the kind words about "increased social spending, and several job-creation programmes" are worth puzzling over as well.

getting back to the point, check out The Trials of Henry Kissinger if you get a chance. it's sort of a portrait of a serial killer named Henry....

It’s too bad that the particulars of the chaos that the CIA with the direction our war criminal, Kissinger, had visited upon Chile, are not that well known.
Besides from under bidding the price of copper and infiltrating the labor unions with paid strikers to cripple the country’s infrastructure, there were assassinations and rampant bribery in the background to further the destruction of the existing democracy that elected Salvador Allende.
http://scout.wisc.edu/report/sr/2000/scout-000922.html#5
and
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/chile/index.html
and
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20000919/index.html
If it can happen anywhere, it can happen here.
Success story, my but. Tell that to the victims.

pop quiz:

who recommended this as "the story on Chile"?

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.....The "Chicago Boys" had promised exceptional prosperity and an automatic decline in poverty. But the ranks of the poor shrank only slowly. And as street protests grew with the approach of the 1989 elections, the regime began to focus on social measures. President Patricio Aylwin, elected in 1989, and his successor, Eduardo Frei, took deliberate steps to reduce poverty and counter the negative effects of ultra-liberal policies, which had tolerated a high rate of poverty. There was a genuine effort to redistribute wealth through increased taxation, and Aylwin's espoused the "fair development" program to encourage new businesses. Utilities like electricity, telephones, drinking water and adult education were subsidized. Other program sent young professionals off to the country's poorest regions to stimulate development there using local labour.
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Q:
who recommended this as "the story on Chile"?
A:
another spin technician who has difficulty driving a car
and listening to the radio at the same time yet professes
vast insight about things upon which there is no personal
knowledge e.

Kissinger Watch


"In Latin America, Brazil has the worst distribution of income. Chile is the next worst."

Kissinger the war criminal.
How appropriate to have him lead the coming cover-up.
That’s like having Allen Dulles chair the Warren Commission.

surprise surprise....

"I wasn’t expecting much from the commission anyway. But putting Henry the K in charge of it is really a shame. The intelligence services and U.S. policy could use at least some minor questioning if it’s too much to hope for a major jolt to the posteriors."

enter "kissinger" in the "free-market" search engine recommended by Hazlitt's web site to find the rest of this article.

for something more substantial on Kissinger check out Seymour Hersh's book, The Price of Power

12/05/02 Star Tribune editorial

"what happens in the South is of no importance" --Kissinger to Chilean foreign minister

"Goode, a conservative Republican member of the House Appropriations Committee, wrote Bush a letter this week suggesting that he name another chairman...."

"I do not believe that Henry Kissinger is a good choice to head the September 11th Commission"

z

"wrong choice"

Kissinger Watch

beautiful

kissinger, the new dove

"Kissinger for Christmas"

also check out the latest ("Kissinger in Hell") from the search engine of the Hazlitt Foundation. (search for keyword: kissinger)

"Overload our collective gag reflex with enough reckless laws and appointments, enough shockingly irresponsible decisions any one of which would, by itself, offend and appall anyone with a cognitive pulse, and they all simply become a numbing swirl of indecipherable atrocities...."

etc.

"The Kissinger Dodge"

...sure did serve on this commission for quite some time, huh? Is the White House bowing to (extreme) pressure?

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RVUNPUHU1APBECRBAELCFEY?type=topNews&storyID=1905870

Kissinger Resigns as Head of Sept. 11 Commission
Fri December 13, 2002 05:29 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stepped down on Friday as chairman of a commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House announced.
"It is with regret that I accept Dr. Kissinger's decision to step down as chairman of the National Commission to investigate the events of Sept. 11 2001 and the years that led up to that event," President Bush said in a statement.

Kissinger had been criticized over possible conflicts of interest.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2243419,00.html

Kissinger Quits As Chairman of 9/11 Panel

Friday December 13, 2002 11:00 PM


WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stepped down Friday as chairman of a panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, citing controversy over potential conflicts of interest with his private-sector clients.

``It is clear that, although specific potential conflicts can be resolved in this manner, the controversy would quickly move to the consulting firm I have built and own,'' Kissinger wrote in a letter to President Bush, who appointed him. ``I have, therefore, concluded that I cannot accept the responsibility you proposed.''

The decision was another blow for the fledging panel and the families of Sept. 11 victims. The panel's original vice chairman, George Mitchell, resigned from the commission Wednesday, partly because of pressures to quit his law firm.

Kissinger's resignation came one day after he tried to assure victims that his business interests would not conflict with his duties as chairman. The White House and congressional Democrats had clashed on whether he had to disclose his business clients, with Bush's advisers saying the law did not require such disclosures.

Kissinger said he had told White House lawyers he was willing to remove the appearance of conflict of interests by submitting ``all relevant financial information'' to the White House and to an independent review. He said he could not liquidate Kissinger Associates, his international consulting firm, without delaying the commission's work.

It was not immediately clear who, if anybody, asked him to liquidate his firm.

Bush issued a written statement saying he accepted Kissinger's resignation with regret. ``His chairmanship would have provided the insights and analysis the government needs to understand the methods of our enemies and the nature of the threats we face,'' the statement said.

He promised to pick a new chairman to help ``uncover every detail and learn every lesson of Sept. 11, even as we act on what we have learned so far to better protect and defend America.''

Kissinger wrote: ``My hope is that by the decision to step aside now, the Joint Commission can proceed without further controversy.''

The commission will investigate events surrounding the attacks, examining issues including aviation security, immigration and U.S. diplomacy. It will build on a congressional inquiry, completed this week, into intelligence failures.

Senate Democrats say all commission members, including Kissinger, must submit financial disclosures that would reveal potential conflicts. That view was supported by a report issued last week by Congress' research arm, the Congressional Research Service.

But the White House contended Kissinger, as Bush's sole appointee, need not submit a report. It says federal law does not require presidential appointees to submit disclosures if they are not drawing salaries, as is the case with Kissinger.

But a second Congressional Research Service report said all members of the commission - including a presidential appointee - would be bound by Senate ethics requirements. That report was released Thursday by the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

The dispute is the latest involving the commission that will begin its work early next month. Family members and congressional Democrats have questioned whether the Bush administration wants an honest evaluation of the attacks, with its report due to come out less than six months before the 2004 presidential election.

Negotiations creating the commission were bogged down by disputes over its makeup and rules, with lawmakers and the White House accusing each other of trying to manipulate it for political purposes.

Good riddance to bad rubbish...

latest from Sajit Gandhi (of National Security Archive) on Kissinger

Sajit Gandhi's desiblog

Kissinger Watch #14

12/27/02 update: "New Chairman of 9/11 Commission had business ties with Osama's Brother in Law" -Michel Chossudovsky

1/03/03 update: "Kissinger's unexpected withdrawal illustrates that timely citizen activism can still have a positive impact." -Frank Pelteson

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protest against Kissinger January 13th, 2003


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update 01/10/03:

"Chilean exile Patricio Guzman's eloquent documentary "The Pinochet Case" makes a case similar to Eugene Jarecki's "The Trials of Henry Kissinger": Armed with new interpretations of international law, justice-seekers may bedevil retired monsters in distant jurisdictions."

update 01/11/03:

"Master strategist or master crook?"

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anticrisis

What do you know about my country (Chile) obviously nothing, how can you say that Pinochet was a great thing. ¿do you know how many people die because of him and how many others were tortured or how many are still looking for their relatives, I'm sure you don't know.. And you argue instead that we have a very stable economy, you have your priorties wrong....
poor stupid and ignorant fascist !!!

who are you talking to?