A Sure Fire Way to Bury the Truth-
The Kissinger Commission
by Elmer Elevator
links compiled by Preston Peet
posted at DrugWar.com Dec. 4, 2002
A Younger Henry Kissinger
Few of the Great Public Officials who tried so
aggressively to kill me from 26 March 1969 to 25 March 1971 are
still alive. Many of them had to spend felony time in federal
prison. Henry
Kissinger's boss became the only U.S.
president to resign in disgrace, and neither party ever found
a public role for him for the rest of his life; he became our
National Political Leper.
Most coverups take some time to simmer and reveal themselves.
I think, for example, most of the American people gave the Warren
Commission the benefit of the doubt
and believed its
members would try
honorably to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy
and bring some kind of public
illumination and clarity to it.
This one is remarkably distinctive: Naming
Kissinger as chairman [of the 'independent'
commission to investigate
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks] is the loudest
and most public guarantee that the
last thing the Bush administration wants are any new, substantive
truths and revelations about the 9/11 attacks. Bush isn't
even attending to the window-dressing by appointing someone
in public life whom most Americans trust, honor and respect. He
might as well have announced that the name of this investigative
commission would be The
Liars' Commission.
And yes, a la [Paul] Krassner, we
might as well laugh. Is this national promise to be lied to, misled
and betrayed worth getting upset about?
I actually take great pleasure and comfort in knowing that Henry
Kissinger -- and
there are those who hold him in high regard -- will end his
public career introducing himself to new generations who only
dimly know or remember him as a clown and a criminal.
Where some point to his
Nobel Peace Prize (shared by North Vietnam's Le Doc Tho, who refused
to accept it), now mainstream American history will remember
Henry
Kissinger as our most famous liar. He will go down in history
as the Un-George Washington. For the rest of time, starting this
week, pronouncing "The
Kissinger Commission" will always have a built-in
scoff and snicker in it. Only Fox
News and CNN
announcers will perfect the skill of looking straight at the camera
and pronouncing
it without giggling. I hope they get special bonus pay for
it.
When Democrats complained
that Clinton was being impeached over a blow job, Republicans
screamed that it
wasn't about extramarital sex; they were bringing the government
to a screeching halt for a year because
Clinton LIED, and this not only was a criminal act, but Americans
could not and must never tolerate lying at the highest levels
of government.
Boy oh boy -- The Kissinger Commission is about to warm Clinton's
winter like a cup of cocoa in front of a roaring fireplace. In
the history of lying in public office, "I did not have sex
with that woman" is about to pale and shrink and vanish into
insignificance. Prosperous, powerful white men putting their hands
on Bibles is about to become the universal symbol for lying.
Ordinary Americans will long nostalgically for a president who
lied for ordinary human reasons -- the terror of facing Hillary
-- and not as a fundamental commandment of government. Clinton
enjoyed telling the truth now and then, and may even have preferred
it when he could afford it.
Like the Kissinger-Nixon team, Kissinger
and Bush detest and cringe from the truth. And all Americans
will soon see this with perfect clarity.
The Kissinger Commission: A
liar appointed by a moron.
---
Elmer Elevator is the screen name of Robert
Merkin, author of the novels "Zombie
Jamboree," about American soldiers during the Vietnam
War, and "The
South Florida Book of the Dead," about drug smuggling
in Miami and the Florida Keys. He has been a reporter, editor
and columnist for several East Coast newspapers.
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Links
Want
a cover-up expert? Kissinger's your man
The president clearly does not want to know the truth about Sept.
11. Otherwise he would not have appointed Henry Kissinger to head
an inquiry into the origins of arguably the most successful terrorist
attack in history.
The
Bagman Cometh
"They chose Henry, a man so in love with
secrecy that he bugged his own staff while in White House to make
sure no one leaked anything. Only if George W. Bush posted a sign
on the White House lawn that read, 'Dear America - Screw Your
Investigation,' could the signal be more clear."
The
Photos Kissinger Doesn't Want You to See
You can pick you friends, and you can pick your nose, but don't
pick your nose in high level diplomatic meetings with cameras
running.
Kissinger
Declassified
"The meeting occurred on June 8, 1976, in Santiago, and the
internal State Department memorandum shows how hard Kissinger
tried to shield the Chilean general from criticism and assure
him that his human rights violations were not a serious problem
as far as the U.S. government was concerned."
Famous
Quotes by Henry Kissinger
Kissinger in his own words illustrating the love and affection
he has for integrity, honesty and peace.
Henry:
Portrait of a Serial Kissinger
"In the Sistine Chapel, Gore Vidal once came upon Henry Kissinger
'gazing thoughtfully' at the Hell section of Michelangelo’s Last
Judgment. 'Look,' said Vidal to a friend, 'he’s apartment hunting.'"
The
Trial of Henry Kissinger
"His own lonely impunity is rank; it smells to heaven. If
it is allowed to persist then we shall shamefully vindicate the
ancient philosopher Anacharsis, who maintained that laws were
like cobwebs; strong enough to detain only the weak, and too weak
to hold the strong. In the name of innumerable victims known and
unknown, it is time for justice to take a hand." This is
the book by Christopher Hitchens detailing numerous crimes and
lies by Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger
Lied About East Timor
"Kissinger, ever the politician, is not concerned about the
attack itself but about how it will appear. It would be illegal
for Indonesia to use its US-supplied weapons to beat down other
countries, but if it could somehow be spun as a self-defense move,
that’s permissible."
Henry
Kissinger- Bloody Hands Full of Gold
"It has become the joke of the day that the Bush Administration
is stuffed full of "political dinosaurs" from the Cold War era
who want to rattle their sabers and make one last stand like geriatric
John Waynes. They are everywhere, both in front of the curtain
-Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, et al.- and behind it -Bush, Sr., James
Baker, Henry Kissinger, and God only knows who else. However,
what these men truly represent is no joke at all. "
DOWD:
No Need to Worry About Kissinger Uncovering Anything in 9-11 Probe
"Who better to ferret out government duplicity and manipulation
than the man who engineered secret wars, secret bombings, secret
wiretaps and secret coups, and still ended up as a Pillar of the
Establishment and Nobel Peace Prize winner?"
The
Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction: Risking Judicial Tryanny
Kissinger explains why the movement towards an international criminal
court isn't such a great idea from his own personal perspective.
The
Latest Kissinger Outrage
"Why is a proven liar and wanted man in charge of the 9/11
investigation?" asks Christopher Hitchins.
Bush
picks Kissinger to head official probe: new stage in the September
11 coverup
This is a detailed accounting, by the World Socialist Web Site,
of Kissinger's crimes against humanity and the resulting trouble
he currently has traveling certain parts of the world.
Kissinger:
mistakes may have been made
"As human rights campaigners demonstrated outside the Royal
Albert Hall in London, the target of their protest, Henry Kissinger,
today admitted inside it was possible that 'mistakes were made'
by the US administrations he served in."
Wanted-
War Crimes- Henry Kissinger
All sorts of links here to crimes against humanity, either plotted
or assisted by Henry Kissinger in one way or another.
Henry
Kissinger: War Criminal or Old-Fashioned Murderer?
"Incredibly, Henry Kissinger—the man who rivals Pol Pot for
the dubious honor of being the person responsible for the death
of the largest number of innocent people in South East Asia (and
far surpasses Pol Pot in criminality when one factors in Kissinger's
various levels of responsibility for wholesale slaughter and repression
in other parts of the world)—still wields significant power in
the United States; but his role as eager facilitator of mass murder,
totalitarian repression and other atrocities is never discussed
in polite society."
Is
Henry Kissinger a War Criminal?
"Thirty years after the death of Charles Horman inspired
a bestseller and an Oscar-winning movie, his widow still pursues
those she believes are really to blame -- including the former
U.S. secretary of state. It's one reason the quest for international
justice makes the United States so nervous."
Kissinger,
Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia
Read excerpts of William Shawcross' disturbing book about the
destruction and outright evil perpetrated by Henry Kissinger,
Richard Nixon, and the US military-industrial establishment against
the people of Cambodia during the Vietnam conflict.
Pol
Pot And Kissinger
"The 'secret bombing' of Cambodia by the Nixon-Kissinger
gang may have killed as many Cambodians as were executed by the
Khmer Rouge and surely contributed to the ferocity of Khmer Rouge
behavior toward the urban elite and citizenry whose leaders had
allied themselves with the foreign terrorists."
The
Controversy Surrounding Kissinger
The University of Texas explains in graphic, bloody detail why
it cancelled a speech by Kissinger.
Kissinger's
Back... As 9/11 Truth-Seeker
"Asking Henry Kissinger to investigate government malfeasance
or nonfeasance is akin to asking Slobodan Milosevic to investigate
war crimes."
Why
Milosevic, But Not Kissinger?
"I lost my bid to have the former US secretary of state,
Henry Kissinger, prosecuted on charges of war crimes in Indochina,
but there is good reason to hope that a future, better prepared
attempt might succeed."
For
Chilean Coup, Kissinger Is Numbered Among the Hunted
"With a trial of Gen. Augusto Pinochet increasingly unlikely
here, victims of the Chilean military's 17-year dictatorship are
now pressing legal actions in both Chilean and American courts
against Henry A. Kissinger and other Nixon administration officials
who supported plots to overthrow Salvador Allende Gossens, the
Socialist president, in the early 1970's."
1975
East Timor Invasion Got US Go-Ahead
"President Gerald R. Ford and Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger gave Indonesian President Suharto the go-ahead for Indonesia's
1975 invasion of East Timor that left at least 200,000 dead, newly
declassified documents show."
Henry
Kissinger Has Become a Very Nervous Person
"After Pinochet and Milosevic does Kissinger see the writing
on the wall for himself?"
Henry's
Revenge
"Those Europeans who were aware that the old cold warrior
was still alive could be forgiven for assuming he was in a cell
somewhere awaiting war crimes charges, or living the life of a
fugitive, never sleeping in the same bed twice lest human rights
investigators track him down."
The
Trials of Henry Kissinger - Film
If you aren't up to reading all the gory details outlined by Christopher
Hitchens, check out this documentary about the crimes of Henry
Kissinger.
Kissinger
Watch
A website dedicated to exposing the heinous crimes of Kissinger
of his lifetime in and out of the public eye.
Kissinger
wrong choice to lead 9/11 commission
"President Bush didn't want anyone poking into the government's
mistakes and blown opportunities before 9/11. Only pressure from
victims' families and Congress made him relent. So he arranged
a forward-looking coverup."
Appeal
to revoke the 1973 Nobel Prize for Peace assigned to H. Kissinger
This is an impassioned plea to the Nobel Prize Committee to rethink
its 1973 awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to warmongering,
lying sneak Henry Kissinger.
How
to Think about Henry Kissinger
"Henry Kissinger is a great American success story."
This is a Kissinger-friendly essay about the foreign policy outlook
of Henry Kissinger.
Henry
A. Kissinger (b. May 27, 1923)
A candy-coated bio of madbomber Kissinger from PBS.
Henry
Kissinger Bio
"Henry Alfred Kissinger has always been the target of political
criticism for he had the courage to follow-up on what he thought
was the best course to take at the given time. Time will place
Henry Alfred Kissinger in his proper place in American history,"
notes the writer of this forgiving portrayal of the life of Henry
Kissinger.
Henry
Kissinger: The Walking, Talking Conflict of Interest
"Kissinger's defense of China and other repressive governments
has sometimes raised eyebrows. What it has not raised is tough
questions from TV interviewers about Kissinger's business ties
to these same governments."
Henry-Kissinger.com
There's a photo of here of Henry Kissinger apparently already
burning, but not yet quite in hell.
Henry
Kissinger- If You Want Kill, Do It Fast
This article details Henry Kissinger's involvement in the overthrow
of Salvador Allende of Chile on Sept. 11, 1973, and various murders
committed during Operation Condor in a multitude of South American
countries and Washington, DC as well.
Good
Riddance to Henry Kissinger
Bet the author of this article, published in 2000, isn't the happiest
person nowadays, what with the appointing of Kissinger to head
the "independent" Sept. 11 investigation.
Henry
Kissinger's Secret Trip to China
What was Kissinger doing in China for Nixon?
Henry
Kissinger: Trial by pen
"Most of these allegations have surfaced in print before,
but Hitchens, a Washington-based journalist, summarizes the known
evidence and uses recently declassified US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) documents to shed further light - particularly in
the case of Chile, where a prominent general who opposed the coup
was kidnapped and murdered at the behest of the US government."
Henry
Kissinger is fair game in pluralistic documentary
"Newly released transcripts of the conversation between Kissinger
and Suharto that are shown in the film make it appear likely that
Kissinger is not just forgetful, but lying."
Manhattan’s
Milosevic
"You might have to be crazy. Or at least foolhardy. But you
could try to bring Henry Kissinger to justice for crimes against
humanity. Consider, though, what happened to the last people to
talk even jokingly about plans for a citizen's arrest of the real-life
model for Dr. Strangelove."
BCCI
and Kissinger Associates
"Beginning in the fall of 1986, and continuing through early
1989, BCCI initiated a series of contacts with perhaps the most
politically prominent international and business consulting firm
in the United States -- Kissinger Associates."
KISSINGER
ASSOCIATES, BNL, AND IRAQ
"Mr. Speaker, during a special order last week, I revealed
that Henry Kissinger was a paid member of the Banca Nazionale
del Lavoro Consulting Board for International Policy. Mr. Kissinger
held this position during the height of the biggest banking scandal
in United States history--$4 billion in unreported loans to Iraq
by the Atlanta branch of BNL," said Rep. Henry Gonzalez of
Texas.
Names
Associated with Kissinger Associates
The title here pretty much explain it.
Kissinger,
The Secret Keeper
"One may wish him well. But no less-likely prominent American
could have been found to shed light on what happened in this country's
darkest hour."
Kissinger
McLarty Associates
A brief outline of Kissinger Associates and its affiliate, Kissinger
McLarty Associates.
Why
the War? The Kuwait Connection
Some speculation on the connections of Kissingener to the reasons
for the first Gulf War.
American
Politics and American Foreign Policy- Henry Kissinger
"The following remarks were made by Henry A. Kissinger to
the 2000 annual meeting of the Trilateral Commission in Tokyo."
Henry
Kissinger: the Wanted Man
"Henry Kissinger's dark past seems to be enclosing around
him as various countries in South America and Europe have sought
to question him about actions taken by the Nixon and Ford administrations
in which Kissinger was National Security Adviser and Secretary
of State respectively."
