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Corporate Pig · **Executive Orders -** 09-08-03

On 28 May 2003, (acclaimed) President George Bush passed Executive
Order 13303: Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq and Certain Other Property in Which Iraq Has an Interest

This order States:

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Section 1. Unless licensed or otherwise authorized pursuant to this order, any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void, with respect to the following:

(a) the Development Fund for Iraq, and
(b) all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein,

and proceeds, obligations, or any financial instruments of any nature whatsoever arising from or related to the sale or marketing thereof, and interests therein, in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest, that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons.

Refer for PDF of Executive Order 13303:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2...f/03-13412.pdf

For those who don't understand this, in laymens terms:

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...Oil companies involved in extraction of Iraqi oil total immunity from all lawsuits arising from contractual disputes, discrimination claims, international treaties, violations of labour practices, human rights violations and environmental disasters. It further gives immunity to all sellers and marketers of this oil. What this means is that if an environmental disaster occurs in California due to criminal negligence on the part of an oil company, they are immune from liability if some of their oil revenue can be traced back to Iraq. And it goes without saying that the Iraqi people are totally out of luck in receiving any compensation for damages to their health or environment, and the US and British oil companies can make as much profit as is humanly possible.

Suddenly, the definition for ?democracy? in Iraq, becomes hazier every day, otherwise I guess its entirely relative to the individual...

Corporate Pig · 09-09-03

For those who don't know their History...

Iraq has been "liberated" before.
In 1917 the British invaded Baghdad and "liberated" Iraq from the tyranny of the Ottoman Turks. British oil companies then proceeded to steal Iraqi oil until 1958, when a nationalist revolution overthrew the British puppet ruler King Faisal and the oil was nationalized.

It is very disconcerting and depressing that many Americans think the United States is not similar to all other capitalist powers in history and is completely uninterested in exploiting the natural resources of the Third World, but instead wants only to bring them democracy and freedom.

The US-installed Shah of Iran didn't bring the Iranian people democracy and freedom, but terrible repression and torture by his secret police. And the US oil companies made huge profits under the Shah's dictatorship. Do people who believe in the innocence and benevolence of US foreign policy also believe in the tooth fairy..?
Refer: http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle4588.htm

And in Chile...
In 1970 Chile democratically elected to power leftist President Salvador Allende. President Nixon, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and the CIA set about a campaign of destabilisation of Chile's economy, and gave support and encouragement to the military uprising and coup d'etat on September 11, 1973. More than 10,000 people were tortured, murdered, or disappeared in the ensuing months and years of military terror.
Refer: http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mex...hile_1973.html

Qoji · 09-09-03

Get a load of these Kissinger quotes:

"The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people."

"Not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende. Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty..."

"The illegal we can do right now; the unconstitutional will take a little longer."

Corporate Pig · 09-09-03

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Originally Posted by Qoji

"Not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende. Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty..."

don't worry... the Chileans [were] trying to extradite Kissinger..

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Kissinger may face extradition to Chile

Jonathan Franklin in Santiago and Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Wednesday June 12, 2002
The Guardian (Refer: http://www.guardian.co.uk/pinochet/S...735920,00.html)

Henry Kissinger may face extradition proceedings in connection with the role of the United States in the 1973 military coup in Chile.

The former US secretary of state is wanted for questioning as a witness in the investigation into the events surrounding the overthrow of the socialist president, Salvador Allende, by General Augusto Pinochet.

It focuses on CIA involvement in the coup, whether US officials passed lists of leftwing Americans in Chile to the military and whether the US embassy failed to assist Americans deemed sympathetic to the deposed government.

Chile's Judge Juan Guzman is so frustrated by the lack of cooperation by Mr Kissinger that he is now considering an extradition request to force him to come to Chile and testify in connection with the death of the American film-maker and journalist Charles Horman, who was killed by the military days after the coup.

Horman's story was told in the 1982 Costa-Gavras film, Missing, starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.

Judge Guzman is investigating whether US officials passed the names of suspected leftwing Americans to Chilean military authorities. Declassified documents have now revealed that such a list existed. Sergio Corvalan, a Chilean lawyer, said that he could not divulge the "dozens" of names on the list.

At the time of his death, Horman was investigating the murder of Rene Schneider, the chief of staff in the Chilean army whose support for Allende and the constitution was seen as an obstacle to the coup.

The CIA had been involved with groups plotting Schneider's murder, providing them with weapons and advice, according to a CIA internal inquiry in 2000. It found that the agency had withdrawn its support for the plotters before the murder but had paid them $35,000 afterwards "to maintain the goodwill of the group"...

...This is not the first attempt to interview Mr Kissinger about the turbulent period in Latin America.

During a visit to London in April, judges in Spain and France unsuccessfully tried to question him about America's role in Operation Condor, which has been described as a coordinated hit squad organised from Chile and including six South American nations aimed at dealing with leftwing opposition groups.

Several declassified documents which have emerged over the past two years have shown an increasingly visible American hand in Operation Condor.

Welcome to the real way in which Amerika implements its LONG PLANNED "DEMOCRACY's"..

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FORD, KISSINGER AND THE INDONESIAN INVASION, 1975-76

Ford and Kissinger Gave Green Light to Indonesia's Invasion of East Timor, 1975: New Documents Detail Conversations with Suharto

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 62
Edited by William Burr and Michael L. Evans
December 6, 2001

Refer: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62/

The New Evidence

The Indonesian invasion of East Timor in December 1975 set the stage for the long, bloody, and disastrous occupation of the territory that ended only after an international peacekeeping force was introduced in 1999. President Bill Clinton cut off military aid to Indonesia in September 1999?reversing a longstanding policy of military cooperation?but questions persist about U.S. responsibility for the 1975 invasion; in particular, the degree to which Washington actually condoned or supported the bloody military offensive. Most recently, journalist Christopher Hitchens raised questions about the role of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in giving a green light to the invasion that has left perhaps 200,000 dead in the years since. Two newly declassified documents from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, released to the National Security Archive, shed light on the Ford administration?s relationship with President Suharto of Indonesia during 1975. Of special importance is the record of Ford?s and Kissinger?s meeting with Suharto in early December 1975. The document shows that Suharto began the invasion knowing that he had the full approval of the White House. Both of these documents had been released in heavily excised form some years ago, but with Suharto now out of power, and following the collapse of Indonesian control over East Timor, the situation has changed enough that both documents have been released in their entirety.

Other documents found among State Department records at the National Archives elucidate the inner workings of U.S. policy toward the Indonesian crisis during 1975 and 1976. Besides confirming that Henry Kissinger and top advisers expected an eventual Indonesian takeover of East Timor, archival material shows that the Secretary of State fully understood that the invasion of East Timor involved the "illegal" use of U.S.-supplied military equipment because it was not used in self-defense as required by law...

Of course the question will be raised by some as to the (so-called)political alignment of the East Timorese Fretlin Party, which was the target of alot of this military action,
and I have an answer...

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This Kissinger memorandum, prepared for President Ford some two weeks before the two were to visit to Jakarta, indicates that the administration's larger strategic interests in Indonesia made it unlikely that Washington would make a fuss over East Timor. The eventual fate of East Timor was evidently a relatively low priority for Kissinger and his staff?it was the twelfth and final item mentioned in the memo.(22) While Kissinger, in the memo, acknowledged that the Indonesians have been ?maneuvering to absorb the colony? through negotiations with Portugal and ?covert military operations in the colony itself,? he apparently did not expect an overt invasion using U.S.-supplied military equipment. Indeed, his memo and the briefing paper on ?Indonesia and Portuguese Timor? both indicate that to do so would violate U.S. law, suggesting that this consideration had induced "restraint" on the part of Jakarta. Moreover, and in contrast to Habib's view(2

that Fretelin was "Communist-dominated," the author of the briefing paper more accurately characterized the Front as "vaguely left-wing."

Refer PDF download of Kissinger memorandum to President Ford:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62/doc3.pdf

so what Kissinger called "communist", were actually recognised as being "vaguely left-wing".

Arty · 09-14-03

Someone writing a declassified CIA memo was quite worried about “Allende’s superb political performance during the first two months of the administration, and the speed and effectiveness with which the (PU))has moved to implement the most popular aspects of its programme” and thought it might encourage moves towards socialism elsewhere in Latin America.

So basically the coup was engineered because they were worried that the people might actually like Allende's government.