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  “I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to
                    the irresponsibility of its own people.”
                                        
> WASHINGTON—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 business clients. 
> 

Via The Duff Wire [1], Kissinger Quits As Chairman of 9/11 Panel [2] 

So that's one Cold War Warrier down [3], many more to go. But it scares me
that Kissinger had to resign because of conflicts of interest. Just what
clients would have a conflict with Kissinger investigating the September
11^th attacks? The US (United States)? The nations of OPEC (Organization of
the Petroleum Exporting Countries)? 

The man scares me. 



> The meeting [in June 1969] was unpleasant. As Valdés [foreign minister of
> Chile] describes it, Kissinger began by declaring: “Mr. Minister, you made
> a strange speech. You come here speaking of Latin America, but this is not
> important. Nothing important can come from the South. History has never
> been produced in the South. The axis of history starts in Moscow, goes to
> Bonn, crosses over to Washington, and then goes to Tokyo. What happens in
> the South is of no importance. You're wasting your time.” 
> 
> “I said,” Valdés recalls, “Mr. Kissinger, you know nothing of the South.”
> “No,” Kissinger answered, “and I don't care.” At that point, Valdés,
> astonished and insulted, told Kissinger: “You are a German Wagnerian. You
> are a very arrogant man.” Later, to his embarrassment, Valdés learned that
> Kissinger was a German Jew, and suspected that he had gravely insulted him.
> 
> 

Via Robot Wisdom [4], The Price of Power [5] 

It's a good article about the events leading up to Kissinger's involvement
with the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) [6] backed coup that overthrew the
elected government of Chile on … September 11^th, 1973. 

[1] http://www.michaelduff.net/weblog.html
[2] http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&e=2&u=/ap/20021214/ap_on_re_us/kissinger_commission
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/12/09.1
[4] http://www.robotwisdom.com/
[5] http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82dec/hersh.htm
[6] http://www.cia.gov/

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