ROBERT E. DUFRESNE
Times
Union
Friday, December 22, 2006
After the Republicans suffered their election thumping, President
Bush replaced Defense Secretary Rumsfeld with former CIA Director
Robert Gates. So much for progress.
Like Rumsfeld, Gates is a veteran member of the world government
promoting Council on Foreign Relations. He supported attacking
Iraq despite the fact that Bush's justifications were unsupportable.
Gates also previously served on Bush's Iraq Study Group, headed
by CFR veterans James Baker and Lee Hamilton. Since the 1940s,
every U.S. secretary of Defense, State and Treasury, and hundreds
of other high level federal appointees have been council members.
What does the CFR stand for? In the Oct. 30, 1993, Washington
Post, ombudsman Richard Harwood stated that the council is "the
nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United
States." In 1975, Adm. Chester Ward, who served as Navy judge
advocate general and was a council member 16 years, wrote that
the council was created for the "purpose of promoting disarmament
and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence
into an all-powerful one-world government." In 1953, the
congressional Reece Committee concluded that the CFR is "in
essence an agency of the United States government" and that
its influence is "not objective but directed overwhelmingly
at promoting the globalist concept."
Robert Gates says that "the United States is going to have
some presence in Iraq for a long time." The CFR-controlled
Iraq Study Group Report states that "by the first quarter
of 2008, subject to unexpected developments in the security situation
on the ground, all combat brigades not necessary for force protection
could be out of Iraq." It recommends an international peace
conference under a strengthened United Nations, with the United
States providing most of the funding and peacekeepers. Thus, U.S.
soldiers will continue to be picked off a few at a time for several
more years.
An honest assessment of this war would have declared it a terrible
mistake from the beginning, repudiated all who were responsible,
and called for bringing our troops home as fast as humanly possible.
But that is not the CFR plan.
ROBERT E. DUFRESNE
Rensselaer
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