In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
9/11 is also the anniversary of a much less celebrated occasion in American history -- 1973 -- the year we officially got into the business of overthrowing democratically elected governments at the behest of American corporations with ties to a Republican administration that set the blueprint for kidnapping and assassination of foreign leaders. CIA insider Peter Kornbluh (September 9, 2003) discusses our now infamous covert action in Chile to overthrow Allende and install August Pinochet, a tyrant whom Kissinger defends as key to American interests, even though he murdered 4,000 people every two weeks and orchestrated car bombings in Washington. Some of this is covered in The Trials of Henry Kissinger, a movie that features, among other things, an interview with my late friend, Edward Korry.
Korry was the U.S. ambassador to Chile during the Allende overthrow and he was a friend of my family. I remember in 1976 he was having what turned out to be a nervous breakdown, because at the time, he didn't know about Track 2: the nefarious CIA planning against Allende, and Kissinger's and Nixon's involvement in his planned assassination. I remember Ed pacing back and forth in our living room, strands of spittle in the corners of his mouth, as he obsessed (he could talk for hours on end, uninterruptedly) about our government's complicity and his role in it, as a dupe. I became so involved with his story that I ended up taping him for about four and a half hours in 1976 for a high school history project, and sat mesmerized as he recounted all of this. He didn't know anything about the CIA undermining him at the time, that's how covert it was. (Now, of course, the whole thing seems quaint. Disgusting, huh?) Well, what surprised me more than anything was that when I started telling people about what we as a country were doing in Chile, and what was going on in our own State Department (Nixon almost did away with the Constitution, he came that close), nobody listened, and if they did, they yawned. Nobody cared. They looked at me with their eyes glassed over, waiting for me to shut up so they could change the subject. People my own age didn't care. I think that's what truly sent Korry over the deep end -- testifying to Congress (Richard Helms, at the time head of the CIA, pinned the whole sordid affair on Korry and made him the fall guy) and getting nowhere. (I read every page of his long, long testimony, which is no less than an indictment of American international corporations such as ITT and Anaconda Copper, who feel they have a right to every natural resource in South America and continue to kill people for it, at the time with the aid and encouragement of the Nixon administration, and, it turns out, Congress.) Frank Church featured prominently in the hushing up and public tarring of Korry. Church is a slime shitbag, despite his hero status among the American liberal left. After that dead end, he brought his story to the New York Times, who refused to publish a word about it. That's when he started having his breakdown. The Times didn't get around to publishing it until seven years later, at which point it was old news. They even admit as much in Korry's obituary (he died earlier this year). That proved to me as early as 1976 how complicit the so-called liberal media is in our illegal foreign exploits. The truth is, the media is a business like any other, and it has to stay in business, and you don't do that by running stories like this, because Americans just don't want to hear about it. That's why Bush gets away with it.
This time, I don't think Americans will be so lucky with the Constitution.
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