Two more reasons to Impeach Bush and Cheney
The Secret History of US role in the genocide in East Timor
From documents declassified in the fall of 2002 it was learned the role of President Ford invasion of East Timor by Indonesia's dictator Suharto in 1975.
Donald Rumsfeld served as Ford's 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.
Gerald Ford actually met twice with Suharto, first in July of 1975 when Suharto came to the United States. And later in December of 1975, of course, on the eve of his invasion of East Timor.
And we now know that for more than a year Indonesia had been planning its armed takeover of East Timor, and the United States had of course been aware of Indonesian military plans. In July of 1975, the National Security Council first informed Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford of Indonesia's plans to take over East Timor by force. And Suharto of course raised this with Gerald Ford in July when he met with Gerald Ford at Camp David on a trip to the United States. And then in December of 1975 on a trip through Southeast Asia, Gerald Ford met again with Suharto on the eve of the invasion, more than two weeks after the National Security Council, CIA, other intelligence agencies had concluded that an Indonesian invasion was eminent. And that the only thing delaying the invasion was the fear that US disapproval might lead to a cut-off of weapons and military supplies to the regime.
One of the points Kissinger and Ford made to Suharto, was that you have to try to get this invasion over with quickly and they wanted them to go in intensively, presumably kill as many Timorese as they could quickly. So that it wouldn't get international attention, and also, apparently they were worried that it could get attention in Congress.
Ford was very much aware of the situation as he was receiving hourly briefings, as was Henry Kissinger, as his plane lifted off from Indonesia, as the invasion indeed commenced. Thousands of Indonesian paratroopers, trained by the United States, using US supplied weapons, indeed jumping from United States supplied airplanes, were descending upon the capital city of Dili and massacring literally thousands of people in the hours and days after December 7, 1975. this invasion, which ended up killing 1/3 of the Timorese population.
Ford and Kissinger knew that by authorizing this invasion, they were technically violating US law. Because the US weapons laws at the time stated US weapons given to foreign clients could not be used for purposes of aggression. And this was in the judgment of the State Department's own legal analysts, this looked like it would be an act of aggression if Indonesia were to invade East Timor, and that could, technically, if Congress got wind of it and started to pay attention to it, be grounds for stopping, cutting off US weapons supply to Indonesia.
That would have been devastating for the invasion of Timor because about 90% of the Indonesian weapons were coming from the US and they needed spare parts, they needed ammunition, they needed a re-supply. And it also would have been dangerous for the regime of Suharto which was based on repression within Indonesia and needed those weapons to keep their own population down. So Kissinger, in his internal discussions within the state department, was pressing his people to make sure that all information about Timor be kept under wraps. They didn't want the US Congress paying too much attention to it.
From 400,000 to perhaps more than a million Indonesians were massacred as the Suharto regime gained power. And they did this, the military did this with US weaponry. And in fact, the US CIA station even gave a list of 5,000 names of people who they had identified as communists and potential opponents of the army, and they turned this list over to Suharto and his military intelligence people and many of those people were subsequently assassinated.
We now know, actually, that a Congressman from Minnesota, Donald Fraser, had actually attempted to declassify the memo, the so-called Smoking Gun Memo, the transcript of General Suharto's conversation with Gerald Ford, in December of 1975. Congressman Fraser actually tried to declassify this in document in 1978 during the Suharto rule--or during the Carter years. However, Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, realizing full well the explosive nature of this cable would show that the United States had been an accomplice in an international act of aggression, recommended that the State Department refuse to declassify the memo..
Source: Dec. 27, 2006:http://www.democrac
NOTE See my book, SOME UNKNOWN HISTORY OF THE U.S. at http://groups.
Did BUSH try to censor a State Dept. history book /Recall the book?
September 1, 2001: AWOL Bush wants to make this ugly history disappear by recalling every single truthful State Dept. history book from hundreds of libraries. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-68, Volume 26, covers Indonesia, Malaysia-Singapore, and the Philippines.
Source: Did Government Direct Book Recall? Reported by Susan DiMattia & Norman Oder
August 1, 2001: CIA decision to take back from libraries a history book revealing the involvement of the United States in the massive killing of Indonesian communists in the 1960s.
A few days ago, the CIA decided to recall Volume 26, one in a series of history books called "Foreign Relations of the United States." The volume in question covers Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines and was recently published by the Government Printing Office.
The book exposes the U.S. involvement in a 1965 Indonesian Army's anti-Communist campaign, that led to the killing of an estimated 1 million people.
According to Peter Dale Scott, the CIA's decision is directly linked to the Bush administration'
"Very soon we're going to see the Bush administration resume aid to the Indonesian Army and to a group called Kopassus," said Scott in a telephone interview. Kopassus, he said is the Indonesian Army's Special Force and the main architect of the 1965 massacres. "What worries them is that it's a volume that details that aid to Kopassus in 1965."
August 14, 2001: The State Department has since released the volume. It can be read on the State Department website at http://www.state.
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Backgound on the Secret History of Indonesia
"Ellsworth Bunker was sent to Indonesia to investigate troubling conditions there. He informed Washington that `the avowed Indonesia objective is "stand on their own feet" in developing their economy free from foreign, especially Western, influence.' A National Intelligence Estimate in September 1965 warned that if the efforts of the mass-bassed PKI `to energize and unite the Indonesian nation... succeeded, Indonesia would provide a powerful example for the underdeveloped world and hence a credit to communism and a setback for Western prestige." (page 93)
"In Indonesia, Sukarno was one of the leaders of the despised nonaligned movement (called `radical nationalism' by Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, Dulles) and he was also allowing too much democracy: a popular-based party of poor peasants was gaining influence. " "Excessive democracy" as Norm Chomsky termed this. (page 163)
Source: Hegemony or Survival, America's Quest for Global Dominance by Norm Chomsky
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The CIA engineered the ouster of Indonesian leader Sukarno, who was anti-western. The CIA directly aided the despotic Suharto, who slaughtered and tortured hundreds of thousands of Indonesians. After the bloodbath, in swarmed the US corporations, throwing thousands of natives off their ancient lands and trashing the environment to drill for oil and dig for gold. One of those leading this exploitive charge: (HENRY KISSINGER) HK helped Mobil forge a deal with Suharto in the mid-60s, then set up the Freeport McMoran gold mine for which he is now majority shareholder as well as anti-environmental legal counsel.
In 1965 - 1966 the US passed names of communists to the Indonesian army which killed 105,000.
The Indonesian Army's campaign against the Indonesia Communist Party (PKI) brought to power the dictator Suharto in 1965-66. U.S. Embassy reporting documents report that on November 13, 1965 information from the (Indonesian) police that "from 50 to 100 PKI members were being killed every night in East and Central Java…."; and the Embassy admitted in an April 15, 1966 airgram to Washington that "We frankly do not know whether the real figure [of PKI killed] is closer to 100,000 or 1,000,000 but believe it wiser to err on the side of the lower estimates, especially when questioned by the press. The figure of 105,000 killed that was proposed in 1970 by foreign service officer Richard Cabot Howland in a classified CIA publication.
On U.S. involvement in the killings – Ambassador Marshall Green's August 10, 1966 airgram to Washington reporting that an Embassy-prepared list of top Communist leaders "is apparently being used by Indonesian security authorities who seem to lack even the simplest overt information on PKI leadership at the time…." On December 2, 1965, Green endorsed a 50 million rupiah covert payment to the Kap-Gestapu movement leading the repression.
http://www.gwu.
The US and British government were determined to end Sukarno's rule (the Hugo Chavez of his day). Declassified documents show that the CIA had received orders to "liquidate President Sukarno..." The CIA had been quietly compiling a (black and gray) list of the country's leading leftist and this document fell into the hands of the coup leaders, General Sukarto's soldiers/brown-
The Sukarto government passed laws allowing foreign companies to own 100 percent of Indonesia's mineral and oil wealth, handed out "tax holidays", and within two years, copper, nickel, hardwood, rubber, and oil - was being divided up among the largest mining and energy companies in the world. (The Shock Doctrine, p. 69)
Second reason to Impeach:
Remember AWOL BUSH repealed the Posse Comitatus Act
Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."
President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."
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