Kissinger's Revenge!
For years, Dr. Strangelove has wanted to get back at Clinton, who exposed the former "statesman's" role backing brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet... and now he has his chance
by Tamara Baker

Dec. 2, 2002 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (APJP) -- In a move in keeping with the fox-guards-henhouse modus operandi of Team Bush, Henry Kissinger has been tapped by George W. Bush to head the September 11th probe.

Bear in mind that the Clinton White House, right up to its last hours in office, kept very close tabs on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

Upon taking power in January of 2001, George W. Bush and his advisors were far less careful and watchful.

This is shown by details such as outgoing Clinton advisor Sandy Berger's having told incoming Bush staffer Condi Rice that she would be spending more time on Al Qaeda than any other issue -- a warning ignored by Ms. Rice.

It's also shown by Clinton's having ordered spy submarines to patrol the waters nearest Afghanistan -- submarines that George W. Bush took off that patrol when he assumed power.

And of course, we have John Ashcroft's refusal on September 10, 2001 to give the FBI the anti-terror tools it needed.

And let's not forget the scores of warnings the Bush circle ignored about a possible terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

However, it's very likely that Henry Kissinger will, in spite of these facts, choose to blame Bill Clinton, not the lax pre-9/11 Bush Cabinet, for the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

This is because Kissinger has a score to settle with Bill Clinton -- a very deep one, one that goes back to 1999, as this Consortium News article points out, and about which I have
written for APJ in the past.

In order to aid British efforts to prosecute Kissinger's good friend and ally, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, as a mass murderer, President Clinton forced the CIA to release tens of thousands of secret documents detailing, among other things, Kissinger's intimate role in helping Pinochet overthrow, then murder, the democratically-elected Salvador Allende in 1973, along with information concerning the murder of Chilean exile Orlando Letelier and American citizen Ronni Moffitt.

Kissinger didn't like it when Bill Clinton exposed Dr. K's ties to Pinochet's bloody, brutal regime.

Now's his chance for revenge.

Does anyone doubt that he'll take it?