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What Gerald Ford Really Stood For
No one should get pleasure from the death of another, but workers have no reason to mourn the passing of Gerald Ford
Richard Mellor
AFSCME Local 444 retired
12-30-06
In California, a working class man or woman who steals a piece of pizza and already has two felonies on their record can receive from the judge a twenty five year stint in one of the state’s many “correctional” institutions.
While doing his time it is unlikely that the prisoner (quite possibly a Vietnam or increasingly more so, Iraq war veteran) will have the privilege of bumping in to former heads of state, especially presidents of the United States.
As the imbecile Bush continues to wreak havoc on the workers of the world without fear of retribution, including workers here in the US., we are supposed to bow our heads in reverence to Gerald Ford, a former US President who died December 26th. The San Francisco Chronicle published numerous nauseating letters to the editor December 30th describing Ford as, “hard working and simple” and “a good man” as “decent” and as a person who doesn’t “prevaricate.” I had to head to the dictionary to check on prevaricate as I wasn’t sure if it had something to do with how we chew our food, but it turns out it means someone who doesn’t lie or avoids giving straight, honest answers; it’s the polite way the educated upper classes call each other liars.
Now every worker knows you couldn’t be president of the United States if you gave honest answers. But aside from that, Ford, like Ronald Reagan and all these representatives of the capitalist class, have blood on their hands, and no thinking worker would consider them honest and decent people.
Gerald Ford was a political representative of the US ruling class and global capitalism. Like Bush, his base was “…the haves ... and the have-mores.” (1) Unlike Bush, he wasn’t stupid enough to say it publicly. As the Encyclopedia Americana informs us, “Ford consistently opposed federal aid to education, including funds for school construction, emergency school aid, and increased appropriations for higher education. In other domestic areas he voted for greater curbs on labor union practices and for more restrictive increases in the minimum wage.” (2). In the course of two years in office he vetoed more than 50 pieces of legislation that, in his view, increased spending. Naturally this fiscal restraint didn’t include the Pentagon, Ford had supported an aggressive approach in Vietnam that killed a couple of million Vietnamese and some 57,000 American workers and youth.
Ford supported the dictator Pinochet who, with US support, overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile assassinating its leader. Prior to the coup, the constitutionalist general, Rene Schneider was also assassinated with the tacit approval of Kissinger and the US government. Schneider was no supporter of Chile’s new leader, Salvador Allende, but he was a staunch constitutionalist and considered it his duty to defend the results of a democratic election. Pinochet had thousands murdered and suppressed trade union and democratic rights.
Ford and Kissinger were close partners in crime. Not long after the murder of Allende, they visited the Indonesian dictator General Suharto on December 6th 1975 for an official visit on the way to Hawaii. The US was the principal supplier of arms to Suharto, a vicious dictator, also a suppressor of trade union and democratic rights. After a brief talk with Suharto, Ford and Kissinger left the next day, December 7th, and that very day the Indonesian military invaded East Timor. In the events that followed some 200,000 people were massacred, close to one third of the population. Both Ford and Kissinger gave US government approval to this slaughter. (3)
Kissinger conveniently left the incident out of his memoirs, along with many other distasteful truths, but classified state documents report part of the conversation that he and Ford had with Suharto who needed US approval for the invasion:
Ford: “We will understand and we will not press you on the issue.”
Kissinger: “We understand your problem and the need to move quickly, but I am only saying that it would be better if it were done after we returned.” (4)
So were the lives of thousands upon thousands of Asian adults and children decided by the leaders of the “free” world.
It has just come to light that Ford opposed the Iraq war. A decision by a man of this type would be based on the strategic interests of US capitalism and profit making and not for the human misery that results from such a venture. But if there are any doubts, one should ask oneself: what sort person is it that opposes a war his country starts that leads to the death of close to a million people as well as three thousand of his own nationality and says nothing about it?
He tells a prominent writer about his opposition on the condition that the writer says nothing until after his death. (I am sure his heirs will reap the book royalties.)
What could one possibly respect about this person?
I went to my local library the night after Ford’s death and the flags were at half-mast. I thanked them for recognizing James Brown for the great cultural icon that he was. The security guy told me it was for Gerald Ford, "He helped heal the nation after Nixon and Watergate", he informed me, repeating the line they are pushing in the media.
“He pardoned the thug Nixon, this heals the nation?” I replied. "How about we let one and a half million of the folks we have in prison out so we can really feel better? Maybe we'll even get cured. Plus, the majority of them are my people, workers."
"He pardoned Nixon because they take care of their own." I said, "They always take care of their own."
He couldn't say much because he was at work. But he gave me a wry smile; he knew what I meant.
In the movie Gosford Park, one of the maids of some bourgeois asks the maid of another why they live their lives through their masters. They see that they have no life of their own outside of serving these people. They have no heroes, no great leaders, no one to look up to; only the important figures of the ruling class are supposed to occupy that position.
They still offer up their figures and through their control of society try to convince working people to honor these “great” men. This is what state funerals of men like Ford and Reagan are all about. But their heroes are not our heroes. Their morals are not our morals. Simply put; they are not our kind. History is full of heroic figures, working class men and women who fought and died for the rights we enjoy today. We have the rights we have today despite the Gerald Fords of this world not because of them
Another plunderer of the riches of the world will be gone soon, the English Queen. Many of them live long lives, a benefit of a rich lifestyle, good food and great medical care. Their parting should not sadden us.
(1) "This is an impressive crowd -- the haves ... and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base." George Bush Al Smith Foundation speech, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, 19 October 2000
(2) Encyclopedia Americana: http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0161740-00
(3) The Trial of Henry Kissinger: Christopher Hitchens
(4) Matthew Rothschild: The Progressive, 12-28-06
AFSCME Local 444 retired
12-30-06
In California, a working class man or woman who steals a piece of pizza and already has two felonies on their record can receive from the judge a twenty five year stint in one of the state’s many “correctional” institutions.
While doing his time it is unlikely that the prisoner (quite possibly a Vietnam or increasingly more so, Iraq war veteran) will have the privilege of bumping in to former heads of state, especially presidents of the United States.
As the imbecile Bush continues to wreak havoc on the workers of the world without fear of retribution, including workers here in the US., we are supposed to bow our heads in reverence to Gerald Ford, a former US President who died December 26th. The San Francisco Chronicle published numerous nauseating letters to the editor December 30th describing Ford as, “hard working and simple” and “a good man” as “decent” and as a person who doesn’t “prevaricate.” I had to head to the dictionary to check on prevaricate as I wasn’t sure if it had something to do with how we chew our food, but it turns out it means someone who doesn’t lie or avoids giving straight, honest answers; it’s the polite way the educated upper classes call each other liars.
Now every worker knows you couldn’t be president of the United States if you gave honest answers. But aside from that, Ford, like Ronald Reagan and all these representatives of the capitalist class, have blood on their hands, and no thinking worker would consider them honest and decent people.
Gerald Ford was a political representative of the US ruling class and global capitalism. Like Bush, his base was “…the haves ... and the have-mores.” (1) Unlike Bush, he wasn’t stupid enough to say it publicly. As the Encyclopedia Americana informs us, “Ford consistently opposed federal aid to education, including funds for school construction, emergency school aid, and increased appropriations for higher education. In other domestic areas he voted for greater curbs on labor union practices and for more restrictive increases in the minimum wage.” (2). In the course of two years in office he vetoed more than 50 pieces of legislation that, in his view, increased spending. Naturally this fiscal restraint didn’t include the Pentagon, Ford had supported an aggressive approach in Vietnam that killed a couple of million Vietnamese and some 57,000 American workers and youth.
Ford supported the dictator Pinochet who, with US support, overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile assassinating its leader. Prior to the coup, the constitutionalist general, Rene Schneider was also assassinated with the tacit approval of Kissinger and the US government. Schneider was no supporter of Chile’s new leader, Salvador Allende, but he was a staunch constitutionalist and considered it his duty to defend the results of a democratic election. Pinochet had thousands murdered and suppressed trade union and democratic rights.
Ford and Kissinger were close partners in crime. Not long after the murder of Allende, they visited the Indonesian dictator General Suharto on December 6th 1975 for an official visit on the way to Hawaii. The US was the principal supplier of arms to Suharto, a vicious dictator, also a suppressor of trade union and democratic rights. After a brief talk with Suharto, Ford and Kissinger left the next day, December 7th, and that very day the Indonesian military invaded East Timor. In the events that followed some 200,000 people were massacred, close to one third of the population. Both Ford and Kissinger gave US government approval to this slaughter. (3)
Kissinger conveniently left the incident out of his memoirs, along with many other distasteful truths, but classified state documents report part of the conversation that he and Ford had with Suharto who needed US approval for the invasion:
Ford: “We will understand and we will not press you on the issue.”
Kissinger: “We understand your problem and the need to move quickly, but I am only saying that it would be better if it were done after we returned.” (4)
So were the lives of thousands upon thousands of Asian adults and children decided by the leaders of the “free” world.
It has just come to light that Ford opposed the Iraq war. A decision by a man of this type would be based on the strategic interests of US capitalism and profit making and not for the human misery that results from such a venture. But if there are any doubts, one should ask oneself: what sort person is it that opposes a war his country starts that leads to the death of close to a million people as well as three thousand of his own nationality and says nothing about it?
He tells a prominent writer about his opposition on the condition that the writer says nothing until after his death. (I am sure his heirs will reap the book royalties.)
What could one possibly respect about this person?
I went to my local library the night after Ford’s death and the flags were at half-mast. I thanked them for recognizing James Brown for the great cultural icon that he was. The security guy told me it was for Gerald Ford, "He helped heal the nation after Nixon and Watergate", he informed me, repeating the line they are pushing in the media.
“He pardoned the thug Nixon, this heals the nation?” I replied. "How about we let one and a half million of the folks we have in prison out so we can really feel better? Maybe we'll even get cured. Plus, the majority of them are my people, workers."
"He pardoned Nixon because they take care of their own." I said, "They always take care of their own."
He couldn't say much because he was at work. But he gave me a wry smile; he knew what I meant.
In the movie Gosford Park, one of the maids of some bourgeois asks the maid of another why they live their lives through their masters. They see that they have no life of their own outside of serving these people. They have no heroes, no great leaders, no one to look up to; only the important figures of the ruling class are supposed to occupy that position.
They still offer up their figures and through their control of society try to convince working people to honor these “great” men. This is what state funerals of men like Ford and Reagan are all about. But their heroes are not our heroes. Their morals are not our morals. Simply put; they are not our kind. History is full of heroic figures, working class men and women who fought and died for the rights we enjoy today. We have the rights we have today despite the Gerald Fords of this world not because of them
Another plunderer of the riches of the world will be gone soon, the English Queen. Many of them live long lives, a benefit of a rich lifestyle, good food and great medical care. Their parting should not sadden us.
(1) "This is an impressive crowd -- the haves ... and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite; I call you my base." George Bush Al Smith Foundation speech, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, 19 October 2000
(2) Encyclopedia Americana: http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0161740-00
(3) The Trial of Henry Kissinger: Christopher Hitchens
(4) Matthew Rothschild: The Progressive, 12-28-06
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“In the course of two years in office he vetoed more than 50 pieces of legislation that, in his view, increased spending. Naturally this fiscal restraint didn’t include the Pentagon, Ford had supported an aggressive approach in Vietnam that killed a couple of million Vietnamese and some 57,000 American workers and youth.”
We’ll considering that the country was in one of its worst recessions in history, his desire not to spend needlessly would make sense wouldn’t you say? Also, most US troops were out of Vietnam by the time he took office, if you care to take a gander at annual troop levels, plus it was his decision to end economic and military aid to the South.
We’ll considering that the country was in one of its worst recessions in history, his desire not to spend needlessly would make sense wouldn’t you say? Also, most US troops were out of Vietnam by the time he took office, if you care to take a gander at annual troop levels, plus it was his decision to end economic and military aid to the South.
Well, he ended aid to the south because the war was lost, becasue the Vietnamese working class and the collapse of US troop morale forced it upon him. He attacked Johnson for his dovish approach to the war. If I force you through my opposition to treat me with respect that is hardly your good qualities.
As far as recessions go. What causes recessions? Overproduction, the inability of the working class to buy back what we produce due to the private ownership of the means of production. And as I say, the Pentagon budget wasn't included.
As far as recessions go. What causes recessions? Overproduction, the inability of the working class to buy back what we produce due to the private ownership of the means of production. And as I say, the Pentagon budget wasn't included.
The late former pres. Ford is typical of the presidents of the US in being reactionary,all of whom are by definition "Chairperson of the Board" of the management committee of the captialist class, which is what the US government is. In addition to the above, we should recall:
(1) Ford, as Congressperson, was on the notorious Warren Commission, which issued the infamous whitewash report on the Kennedy Assassination, claming that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Pres. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. As Oswald, a CIA agent, stated, he was just a patsy, a fall guy; he did not kill anyone on November 22, 1963. The Kennedy Asssassination was a Julius Ceasar routine, with the assassins associated with the Texas gang led by then (Democratic) VP Lyndon Johnson. They involved the CIA and the Cuban counter revolutionaries (gusanos) who were defeated by the Cuban people in the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion in of April 17, 1961. In other words, this was a war of gangs in the US capitalist class, a falling out among thieves. We saw the same coverup by the ruling class in the 9/11 Commission Report concerinng the 9/11 Inside Job, perpetrated by the ruling class, with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice & Giuliani in charge, to promote war and fascism, the same reason the Nazis set their Reichstag fire, and carried out by the US air force, which not only provided no air defense (the first obvious proof that it was an Inside Job) but guided the planes with remote control as there were no hijackers on those planes, 9 of the hijackers were alive on 9/12/01. The second obvious proof that it was an Inside Job was of course the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and Building 7, a military building which was not hit by any plane, in a few seconds, in their own footprints in small enough pieces to be carted away immediately, thus removing the evidence. The connection between the Kennedy Asssassination and the 9/11 Inside Job is of course Texas, in particular, the (Republican) Bush family.
2. The pardon of Nixon was prearranged, which is an obstruction of justice, an impeachable offense. This was discussed on Democracy Now (heard on KPFA, 94.1 FM, 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. weekdays) on December 27, 2006, with the interview of Victor Navasky, publisher emeritus of the Nation and chairperson of the Columbia Journalism Review. See http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/27/1647206
3. In that same article, it refers to Ford's effort to impeach one of the better Supreme Court justices in US history, Justice William O. Douglass. Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, states:
"The AP says that in April of 1970, at the request of White House aide, John Ehrlichman, Ford led an effort by more than 100 house members to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglass. The efforts stem from the Senate’s rejection of two Nixon nominees to the court, Clement Haynesworth Jr. and G. Harold Carswell. In a now famous speech on the house floor, Ford told his colleagues that “an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”
Ford based his case on Douglass' association with a foundation built partly on gambling money and the appearance of some of the eccentric justices’ writings in an issue of Evergreen Review magazine in which nude photographs also appeared. The Evergreen charger and forward the mocking of democrats, of course, William O. Douglass was not impeached. "
4. The above article refers to East Timor as does Democracy Now on Dec. 27 at http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/27/1638254
Another evil deed by Suharto was the slaughter of at least 1 million Communists and alleged supporters around 1965, paid for with our tax dollars via the CIA. The rivers of Indonesia, an oil rich country, literally ran with blood and bodies.
5. Other things: You will note that Ford's advisers include may of the same fascist thugs prominent in today's US capitalist government. As described by Goodman on 12/27:
"Gerald Ford surrounded himself by advisers who would later play key roles in the current Bush administration and in shaping Bush’s Iraq war policy. Donald Rumsfeld served first as his chief of staff and then as Secretary of Defense. Dick Cheney also served as Ford’s chief of staff. Paul Wolfowitz served in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. "
As to amnesty for draft resisters (draft dodgers and draft evaders were the warmonger terms which I have heard from some people who claim to be against the draft but are too young to remember the War Against Vietnam), it was Carter who carried it out. Carter was equally despicable, but he needed votes and the draft had included college students, a mistake that so far the ruling class has not yet made again.
You will note in the interview with Navasky that the murderer of the Rosenbergs, Judge Kaufman, was a Democrat, with a capital D. They were arrested and framed by the Democratic Truman administration in 1950, and murdered by the Republican Eisenhoweer-Nixon Administration on June 19, 1953 for the contrived charge of conspiracy to commit atomic espionage, of which they were innocent.
As to what the average American "thinks," the average American does not think about politics at all. A favorite postage stamp of Americans is the Bugs Bunny cartoon stamp, wihch is a sign of an 8-year-old intellect, the same as George Bush's intellect. There is an understanding that the quality of our lives never changes, regardless of who is president, which is why most of the workingclass never votes; that is who the 50% of the nonvoters are. In other words, life itself has to teach the realities of capitalism to the average American worker, and when they get hungry enough, they will fight for food. Of course, the rest of us who are not average can only ask, if not now, when?
(1) Ford, as Congressperson, was on the notorious Warren Commission, which issued the infamous whitewash report on the Kennedy Assassination, claming that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Pres. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. As Oswald, a CIA agent, stated, he was just a patsy, a fall guy; he did not kill anyone on November 22, 1963. The Kennedy Asssassination was a Julius Ceasar routine, with the assassins associated with the Texas gang led by then (Democratic) VP Lyndon Johnson. They involved the CIA and the Cuban counter revolutionaries (gusanos) who were defeated by the Cuban people in the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion in of April 17, 1961. In other words, this was a war of gangs in the US capitalist class, a falling out among thieves. We saw the same coverup by the ruling class in the 9/11 Commission Report concerinng the 9/11 Inside Job, perpetrated by the ruling class, with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice & Giuliani in charge, to promote war and fascism, the same reason the Nazis set their Reichstag fire, and carried out by the US air force, which not only provided no air defense (the first obvious proof that it was an Inside Job) but guided the planes with remote control as there were no hijackers on those planes, 9 of the hijackers were alive on 9/12/01. The second obvious proof that it was an Inside Job was of course the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and Building 7, a military building which was not hit by any plane, in a few seconds, in their own footprints in small enough pieces to be carted away immediately, thus removing the evidence. The connection between the Kennedy Asssassination and the 9/11 Inside Job is of course Texas, in particular, the (Republican) Bush family.
2. The pardon of Nixon was prearranged, which is an obstruction of justice, an impeachable offense. This was discussed on Democracy Now (heard on KPFA, 94.1 FM, 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. weekdays) on December 27, 2006, with the interview of Victor Navasky, publisher emeritus of the Nation and chairperson of the Columbia Journalism Review. See http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/27/1647206
3. In that same article, it refers to Ford's effort to impeach one of the better Supreme Court justices in US history, Justice William O. Douglass. Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, states:
"The AP says that in April of 1970, at the request of White House aide, John Ehrlichman, Ford led an effort by more than 100 house members to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglass. The efforts stem from the Senate’s rejection of two Nixon nominees to the court, Clement Haynesworth Jr. and G. Harold Carswell. In a now famous speech on the house floor, Ford told his colleagues that “an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”
Ford based his case on Douglass' association with a foundation built partly on gambling money and the appearance of some of the eccentric justices’ writings in an issue of Evergreen Review magazine in which nude photographs also appeared. The Evergreen charger and forward the mocking of democrats, of course, William O. Douglass was not impeached. "
4. The above article refers to East Timor as does Democracy Now on Dec. 27 at http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/27/1638254
Another evil deed by Suharto was the slaughter of at least 1 million Communists and alleged supporters around 1965, paid for with our tax dollars via the CIA. The rivers of Indonesia, an oil rich country, literally ran with blood and bodies.
5. Other things: You will note that Ford's advisers include may of the same fascist thugs prominent in today's US capitalist government. As described by Goodman on 12/27:
"Gerald Ford surrounded himself by advisers who would later play key roles in the current Bush administration and in shaping Bush’s Iraq war policy. Donald Rumsfeld served first as his chief of staff and then as Secretary of Defense. Dick Cheney also served as Ford’s chief of staff. Paul Wolfowitz served in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. "
As to amnesty for draft resisters (draft dodgers and draft evaders were the warmonger terms which I have heard from some people who claim to be against the draft but are too young to remember the War Against Vietnam), it was Carter who carried it out. Carter was equally despicable, but he needed votes and the draft had included college students, a mistake that so far the ruling class has not yet made again.
You will note in the interview with Navasky that the murderer of the Rosenbergs, Judge Kaufman, was a Democrat, with a capital D. They were arrested and framed by the Democratic Truman administration in 1950, and murdered by the Republican Eisenhoweer-Nixon Administration on June 19, 1953 for the contrived charge of conspiracy to commit atomic espionage, of which they were innocent.
As to what the average American "thinks," the average American does not think about politics at all. A favorite postage stamp of Americans is the Bugs Bunny cartoon stamp, wihch is a sign of an 8-year-old intellect, the same as George Bush's intellect. There is an understanding that the quality of our lives never changes, regardless of who is president, which is why most of the workingclass never votes; that is who the 50% of the nonvoters are. In other words, life itself has to teach the realities of capitalism to the average American worker, and when they get hungry enough, they will fight for food. Of course, the rest of us who are not average can only ask, if not now, when?
For more information:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid...
As soon as the republican hit men drove Carter from office, the old Ford White house enscounced themselves in the corporate life of the Midde -East, with blessings from their operatives in DC.
This is how. Santa Fe International of Alhambra Ca was bought by the government of Kuwait, for 2.2 billion in 1981. This is much more than they would have been worth on the open market: it was an employee owned company at the time, and they were offered an extraordinary proce by a highly motivated buyer with a long term plan, and government connections.
It was the largest cash buyout to date, ca: 1981, and raised eyebrows, but the wheels were greased and the deal was done.
Santa Fe International, now owned by the Kuwait Oil Company subsequently hired Gerald Ford and his former National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft as directors. (1982)
They also hired several legislators who fought the battle in congress to attack Iraq in 90/91, thus protecting the interests of the Kuwaiti government.
In 1997, they merged with Global Marine, and the Kuwaitis were forced to reduce their stake due to national security reasons.
Members of their current board of directors have held positions at State Dept under current admin, and several were on the Iraq Study group, which recommended, among other tings, sweeping privatization of Iraqi assets in a manner that would benefit their group of investors, and the Carlyle Group especially.
With a little bit of work, the complete long term plan that led to Gulf War I and II can be explained, with Ford as a willing player, acting as an agent for the royal family of Kuwait.
I have no respect for a man who would allow himself to be used by pirates for acts of treason against this country. Throw the dirt over him and say goodbye.
David Roknich
DOGSPOT
This is how. Santa Fe International of Alhambra Ca was bought by the government of Kuwait, for 2.2 billion in 1981. This is much more than they would have been worth on the open market: it was an employee owned company at the time, and they were offered an extraordinary proce by a highly motivated buyer with a long term plan, and government connections.
It was the largest cash buyout to date, ca: 1981, and raised eyebrows, but the wheels were greased and the deal was done.
Santa Fe International, now owned by the Kuwait Oil Company subsequently hired Gerald Ford and his former National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft as directors. (1982)
They also hired several legislators who fought the battle in congress to attack Iraq in 90/91, thus protecting the interests of the Kuwaiti government.
In 1997, they merged with Global Marine, and the Kuwaitis were forced to reduce their stake due to national security reasons.
Members of their current board of directors have held positions at State Dept under current admin, and several were on the Iraq Study group, which recommended, among other tings, sweeping privatization of Iraqi assets in a manner that would benefit their group of investors, and the Carlyle Group especially.
With a little bit of work, the complete long term plan that led to Gulf War I and II can be explained, with Ford as a willing player, acting as an agent for the royal family of Kuwait.
I have no respect for a man who would allow himself to be used by pirates for acts of treason against this country. Throw the dirt over him and say goodbye.
David Roknich
DOGSPOT
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