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Kissinger Commission the Latest Laugher
On November 27th, President Bush finally appointed (after 14 months of resistance) a cover-up chief to head the new so-called independent investigation of intelligence failures prior to and during the 9/11 attacks. He is none other than the infamous "Dr. Strangelove," who will be 80 years old this spring.
Bush, somehow maintaining a straight face throughout the proceedings, cracked the unintended joke of the day when he said, "Dr. Kissinger will bring broad experience, clear thinking, and careful judgment to this important task." He then turned to the accused mass killer, who cannot set foot inside at least a half-dozen countries out of fear of being served with a subpoena, and said, "Mr. Secretary, thank you for returning to the service of your nation."
Bush misspoke, but probably intentionally. What he really meant was ". . . to the service of my current CYA situation."
Explaining the mission to the audience of survivors, families of victims, and advocates of the bill, Bush said, "This commission will help me and future presidents to understand … the nature of the threats we face."
You bet it will, Georgie: such as the threat of the American people finding out too much truth about the whole cursed situation, which is what concerns you most.
We can bet, too, that this Kissinger Commission (as the media will surely name it) will eventually produce a result comparable with those of the Warren Commission of 1964, the FBI's cover-up of the Murrah implosion at Oklahoma City in 1995, and the 2000 Danforth final cake-icing re. Waco.
Kissinger foretold his plans at the Bilderberger Conference in Evians, France, in 1991: "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence."
Notably, President Shrub did not set as a primary goal for the commission to uncover mistakes or lapses of the government that could have prevented the attacks. Instead, he said it should try to help the administration learn the tactics and motives of the enemy. He did not elaborate further and left it to the public's imagination as to which "enemy" he was referring. Some of these in the recent past have included talk show hosts, militia members, and Bible-believing Christians unaligned with the Judeo/Christian Sunday corporations.
Known officially as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, this investigative joke has a broad mandate, The panel will have 18 months to cover up issues such as lapses in aviation security, diplomacy, terrorist financing and border problems, along with intelligence (?).
Mr. Bush called on members to report back more quickly than 18 months, saying the nation needed to know quickly how it could avoid terror attacks in the future. (Now what's the sudden hurry? For more than a year, this so-called probe wasn't necessary. Could it be that he has finally found the "right" man for the "job?")
He then spoke the most frightening sentence of his whole foolish charade with: "The sooner we have the commission's conclusions, the sooner we can act on them." Lord, have mercy!
I don't know about you, but up until now, I have not been very worried about any terrorists - other than those with the badges, that is.
Criticism of Kissinger's policies in Southeast Asia and Latin America has not ebbed in three decades. In a series of articles in 2001, writer Christopher Hitchens accused Kissinger of war crimes for the bombing of Cambodia. The chameleon helped engineer the CIA coup, with death squads, which overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende on the very interesting date of 9/11/73.
Htichens asked recently, "Why is a proven liar and wanted man in charge of the 9/11 investigation? When in office, Henry Kissinger organized massive deceptions of Congress and public opinion." Methinks you answered your own question, Chris.
In a 1973 book by Frank Capell, Henry Kissinger - Soviet Agent, we learn all we need to know about the two-faced scoundrel:
"An anti-Communist who infiltrated Polish Communist Intelligence and rose to the equivalent rank of general has now named Henry Kissinger as a Soviet agent, recruited into a special group known as ODRA while he was a sergeant in the U.S. Armed Forces in Germany during World War II. The information obtained from this general was found to be accurate in all cases where it was checked out.".
And we predict that Winona Ryder will soon be hired on as Chief of Security at Saks 5th Avenue. Remember, folks, you heard it here first.