UQ Wire: Christopher Hitchens & Chairman Kissinger

Introduction From Unanswered Questions Co-Founder Kyle F. Hence

While I take issue with the slight against the "9/11 skeptics" in his last paragraph below, I feel that what Christopher Hitchens has documented about Kissinger must lead even the least 'skeptical' to seriously question the Bush Administration's intentions in appointing him Chairman of the Commission.

Time to pull out ALL the stops and mount a 'storm of protest' as C.H. himself suggests. Even better yet, and likely more fruitful, let us fully examine the ad-hoc independent investigations undertaken by an army of researchers and intrepid journalists -- and coalesce a legitimate Citizens' Truth Commission that is NOT tainted by the a war criminal and master of secrecy and cover-up!

Yeah, I know I sound like a broken record here but I cannot rest soundly until this affront to the victim families and countless others around the world who are looking for the truth is protested and remedied. Delete my commentary if you like, but please forward this Hitchens commentary far and wide.

People deserve to know the truth about this man. Post it on forums; cull the facts for a full page ad in your paper or a letter to the editor; nothing short of a huge public outcry and mobilization on this issue has any chance in my view of stopping the heinous fear-mongering, Constitutional stripping effect, and insane drive for war and oil of the current government; which the evidence clearly and compellingly suggests, is built on the great deception of 9/11.

Sure, I may be wrong; however, I sincerely doubt it. Given the appointment of this lying criminal to the commission I'd bet my bottom dollar we won't see a commission willing to look at all the facts and follow them wherever they might lead! If that is done and I'm proven misguided, fine; but let's see that it is done, one way or another, preferably another.

I do believe an effort should be, and will be made by many to present the Commission with the case built by UnansweredQuestions.org, Michael Ruppert, Michel Chossudovsky, Jared Israel, Nafeez M. Ahmed, Daniel Hopsicker, Paul Thompson, MalcontentX, Gore Vidal and a host of others linked to from our site.

However, it is my hope that growing numbers will throw more of their weight, support, time and money behind the Citizens' Truth Commission now being organized to separate the wheat from the chafe, the truth from the lies. Now is certainly not the time to be timid!

Again, 9/11 is the 'Achilles Heel' of an out of control Administration and an all too compliant and accommodating Congress. So let us take our aim at this vulnerability and thus reverse this dangerous course embarked upon since, and justified by, 9/11.

Grow your email list! Send money to support independent investigators - buy their books and videos! Act NOW! Carpe Diem! Go above and beyond the call of duty! Inspire others by example! Relish the challenge! Time for Both a “Firestorm Of Protest” and a credible, full and truly independent investigation.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can for your country" -JFK

Ok then, I'm down off my high horse. Forgive me my broken-record raving.

Please stay in touch with UQ. Let us know what you are doing and thinking about in regard to this issue so we can better work together, share ideas, and collaborate to be more effective in getting results!

Warm regards,

KFH

read on re. Kissinger....

The Bush administration has been saying in public for several months that it does not desire an independent inquiry into the gross "failures of intelligence" that left U.S. society defenseless 14 months ago. By announcing that Henry Kissinger will be chairing the inquiry that it did not want, the president has now made the same point in a different way. But the cynicism of the decision and the gross insult to democracy and to the families of the victims that it represents has to be analyzed to be believed.

1) We already know quite a lot, thanks all the same, about who was behind the attacks. Most notable in incubating al-Qaida were the rotten client-state regimes of the Saudi Arabian oligarchy and the Pakistani military and police elite. Henry Kissinger is now, and always has been, an errand boy and apologist for such regimes.

2) When in office, Henry Kissinger organized massive deceptions of Congress and public opinion. The most notorious case concerned the "secret bombing" of Cambodia and Laos, and the unleashing of unconstitutional methods by Nixon and Kissinger to repress dissent from this illegal and atrocious policy. But Sen. Frank Church's commission of inquiry into the abuses of U.S. intelligence, which focused on illegal assassinations and the subversion of democratic governments overseas, was given incomplete and misleading information by Kissinger, especially on the matter of Chile. Rep. Otis Pike's parallel inquiry in the House (which brought to light Kissinger's personal role in the not-insignificant matter of the betrayal of the Iraqi Kurds, among other offenses) was thwarted by Kissinger at every turn, and its eventual findings were classified. In other words, the new "commission" will be chaired by a man with a long, proven record of concealing evidence and of lying to Congress, the press, and the public.

3) In his second career as an obfuscator and a falsifier, Kissinger appropriated the records of his time at the State Department and took them on a truck to the Rockefeller family estate in New York. He has since been successfully sued for the return of much of this public property, but meanwhile he produced, for profit, three volumes of memoirs that purported to give a full account of his tenure. In several crucial instances, such as his rendering of U.S. diplomacy with China over Vietnam, with apartheid South Africa over Angola, and with Indonesia over the invasion of East Timor (to cite only some of the most conspicuous), declassified documents have since shown him to be a bald-faced liar. Does he deserve a third try at presenting a truthful record, after being caught twice as a fabricator? And on such a grave matter as this?

4) Kissinger's "consulting" firm, Kissinger Associates, is a privately held concern that does not publish a client list and that compels its clients to sign confidentiality agreements. Nonetheless, it has been established that Kissinger's business dealings with, say, the Chinese Communist leadership have closely matched his public pronouncements on such things as the massacre of Chinese students. Given the strong ties between himself, his partners Lawrence Eagleburger and Brent Scowcroft, and the oil oligarchies of the Gulf, it must be time for at least a full disclosure of his interests in the region. This thought does not seem to have occurred to the president or to the other friends of Prince Bandar and Prince Bandar's wife, who helped in the evacuation of the Bin Laden family from American soil, without an interrogation, in the week after Sept. 11.

5) On Memorial Day 2001, Kissinger was visited by the police in the Ritz Hotel in Paris and handed a warrant, issued by Judge Roger LeLoire, requesting his testimony in the matter of disappeared French citizens in Pinochet's Chile. Kissinger chose to leave town rather than appear at the Palais de Justice as requested. He has since been summoned as a witness by senior magistrates in Chile and Argentina who are investigating the international terrorist network that went under the name "Operation Condor" and that conducted assassinations, kidnappings, and bombings in several countries. The most spectacular such incident occurred in rush-hour traffic in downtown Washington, D.C., in September 1976, killing a senior Chilean dissident and his American companion. Until recently, this was the worst incident of externally sponsored criminal violence conducted on American soil. The order for the attack was given by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who has been vigorously defended from prosecution by Henry Kissinger.

Moreover, on Sept. 10, 2001, a civil suit was filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court, charging Kissinger with murder. The suit, brought by the survivors of Gen. Rene Schneider of Chile, asserts that Kissinger gave the order for the elimination of this constitutional officer of a democratic country because he refused to endorse plans for a military coup. Every single document in the prosecution case is a U.S.-government declassified paper. And the target of this devastating lawsuit is being invited to review the shortcomings of the "intelligence community"?

In late 2001, the Brazilian government canceled an invitation for Kissinger to speak in Sao Paulo because it could no longer guarantee his immunity. Earlier this year, a London court agreed to hear an application for Kissinger's imprisonment on war crimes charges while he was briefly in the United Kingdom. It is known that there are many countries to which he cannot travel at all, and it is also known that he takes legal advice before traveling anywhere. Does the Bush administration feel proud of appointing a man who is wanted in so many places, and wanted furthermore for his association with terrorism and crimes against humanity? Or does it hope to limit the scope of the inquiry to those areas where Kissinger has clients?

There is a tendency, some of it paranoid and disreputable, for the citizens of other countries and cultures to regard President Bush's "war on terror" as opportunist and even as contrived. I myself don't take any stock in such propaganda. But can Congress and the media be expected to swallow the appointment of a proven coverup artist, a discredited historian, a busted liar, and a man who is wanted in many jurisdictions for the vilest of offenses? The shame of this, and the open contempt for the families of our victims, ought to be the cause of a storm of protest.

For those interested in Hitchens' well-documented expose of Kissinger the war criminal, lier, and protector of secrets visit: http://www.thetrailofhenrykissinger.org

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