Kissinger, Daddy Bush and Iraq

"Mr. Speaker, today I will talk about Henry Kissinger, his consulting firm Kissinger Associates, two former Kissinger Associates directors, Lawrence Eagleburger and Brent Scowcroft, and the chief economist at Kissinger Associates, Alan Stoga. I will explore their links to Banca Nazionale del Lavoro [BNL] and Iraq, and the Bush administration's handling of the BNL scandal. But first, I will provide some background information on the BNL scandal..... As for Mr. Kissinger, he misled the public about his relationship with BNL and about his firm's contact with Saddam Hussein."
KISSINGER ASSOCIATES, SCOWCROFT, EAGLEBURGER, STOGA, IRAQ, AND BNL
Henry B. Gonzalez, (TX-20)
(House of Representatives - April 28, 1992)
Congressional Record: Page H2694

Kissinger Associates, the former secretary of State's ultra-connected consulting firm, has had dealings in the past with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait -- the two nations most closely linked with the 9/11 hijackers -- and was the subject of a congressional investigation for its role in the $4-billion bankrolling of Saddam Hussein in the late 1980s by the Atlanta office of Italy's BNL bank... The truth is, the administration doesn't want a commission looking into what went wrong on Sept. 11 because its focus might turn too close to home....The Bush administration resisted convening a 9/11 commission for more than a year and, when forced by overwhelming public pressure to do so, picked an infamous man with the legendary chops to quash any search for truth. "
Want a Cover-Up Expert? Kissinger's Your Man. History Puts His Credibility at Zero in the 9/11 Probe
Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec 2002

"In January 1995, a Reagan-Bush national security aide, Howard Teicher, submitted a sworn affidavit describing secret CIA military shipments to Iraq in the early-to-mid 1980s. Clinton’s Justice Department hastily classified the affidavit a state secret and then pounded Teicher as lacking credibility.Teicher’s affidavit confirmed earlier allegations by Ari Ben-Menashe and other Middle Eastern intelligence operatives that the Reagan-Bush administration had funneled military equipment to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1980s, at the same time the White House was shipping other weaponry to Iran."
Bush's Political War - Robert Parry
Consortium News, 5 November 2000
Robert Parry is an investigative reporter who broke many of the Iran-contra stories for The Associated Press and Newsweek

"Covert action should not be confused with missionary work."
Henry Kissinger, commenting on the US sellout of the Kurds in Iraq in 1975
'Kissinger and Bin Laden Offer a Dangerous Symmetry'
Minneapolis Star Tribune, 5 Dec 2002

"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."
KISSINGER ASSOCIATES, BNL, AND IRAQ
Henry B. Gonzalez, (TX-20)
(House of Representatives - May 02, 1991)
Congressional Record: Page: H2762

"As previously established Bush was thoroughly aware of Iraq's pursuit of nuclear weapons capability. Iraq pursued its nuclear weapons program through the use of front companies such as Matrix Churchill-a London based network company- and unregulated banks like the Banco National Del Lavorro (BNL), a member bank of the Trilateral Commission, to finance these operations with organizations like Kissinger and Associates benefiting from quid pro-quo business deals directly, and GM, Eli Lilly (a company Bush was the director of) and it's subsidiary Elanco that supplied fertilizer (pre-cursors to bombs) to Iraq, et. al., making the profit. The Head of the House Banking and Finance Committee Henry Gonzalez of Texas issued the following statement on the floor of Congress on February 18, 1993 regarding its investigation into 'Iraqgate': 'There is no doubt that President Bush knew what Saddam Hussein's ambitions were. It is clear that he believed Iraq could be kept on a leash. He was willing to tolerate Iraqi efforts to buy extremely dangerous technology--believing that if things threatened to get out of hand, the leash could be pulled tight and Saddam Hussein stopped. However, as I will show today, there was a great deal of difference between assumption and reality. When it came to Iraq's efforts to build a nuclear weapon, the United States Government knew all about it, but while one arm tried to stop the shipment of critical parts, another agency[the CIA] arranged to have them sold anyway. The case of the nuclear triggers shows how deeply incompetent the Bush administration was, when it came to carrying out its policy of keeping Iraq on a leash.' (Congressional Record House 2/18/93 103rd Cong. 1st Session 139 Cong. Rec. pp. 703) ..... That Iraq's 'terrorist nation' status was revoked at about the same time that BNL, Kissinger and Associates, CCC the Iraqi Business Forum and other special interests got together. A coincidence? This is inconcievable with the information I have presented. It has been established that many of these officials and Bush and Reagan were invested in or had a business relationship with many of the companies vying for markets and contracts in Iraq: Bush and Eli Lilly as well as Zapata oil . Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world next to Saudia Arabia and the largest natural gas reserves with Rumailiah, as all critics agree, was a hotbed of contention before the [the first Gulf] war."
George Bush used CIA to sell nuclear bomb triggers to Iraq and Pakistan
Smirking Chimp, 18 June 2000

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