PRESIDENT BUSH SURPRISES PRO-LIFE LEADERS BY SELECTING KISSINGER FOR 9-11 POST

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | November 29, 2002 | LifeSiteNews.com

[Polycarp]

PRESIDENT BUSH SURPRISES PRO-LIFE LEADERS BY SELECTING KISSINGER FOR 9-11 POST

Kissinger Strongly Implicated in Population Control and Abortion

WASHINGTON, November 29, 2002 (LifeSiteNews.com) - U.S. President George W. Bush announced Wednesday that he had selected former secretary of state Henry Kissinger as chairman of a new independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks. Pro-life leaders were surprised by the selection given the President's aversion to coercive abortion and Kissinger's close association with it.

President Bush was praised by the pro-life community internationally for his defunding of the United Nations Population Fund due to their association with the forced abortion and coercive sterilization practices in China. However, Kissinger was intimately associated with coercive population control as he is the author of the now-declassified national security study memorandum calling for population control - coercive if necessary, in the third world.

Gilles Grondin, a veteran United Nations diplomat and past President of Le Mouvement en faveur de la Vie/Campaign Quebec Vie, (the pro-life movement in Quebec), told LifeSite that he was surprised by President Bush's selection of Kissinger. Grondin, who with his vast UN experience has been one of the most successful pro-life lobbyists at the UN, points out that Kissinger's memo NSSM 200 formed the basis of U.S. foreign policy in the area of population.

Grondin explained that the Memorandum suggested that competition from new world powers would rise when developing nations had sufficient populations to utilize their national resources to their full potential. Thus, NSSM 200 was about ensuring U.S. strategic, economic, and military interest, at the expense of developing countries, by proposing population control including by coercive means if mere propaganda could not succeed.

For more on NSSM 200 including the actual document see LifeSite at:

http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/nssm200/index.html

See Bush's announcement of his selection of Kissinger: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/11/20021127-1.html

[Catholicguy]

We pro-lifers have some very important battles coming up. This appointment is not one of them, and to raise a stink over it on the basis of Dr. K's stand on abortion plays into the hands of the enemy-it makes us look like a bunch of nutballs.

<> Well then, don't appoint him because he is proabortion but give another reason if you are afraid of criticism in the political arena. Prolifers are going to be called nuts - just read this thread. One may as well appoint only prolifers to office and let others reveal their perversity by their name calling. How in the world is it nutballish to act on principle?

There is always some future battle coming up that we must focus on, and, in the meantime we must accept some losses to win the war' or, so we are told. When so-called Christian Presidents appoint men like Kissinger the war is over. It has been lost

Bush made a horrible decision with this apppointment and conservatives have no duty to defend his bad decisions<>

[Aquinasfan]

And the relevance of this is...WHAT? Who gives a crap what his views on infanticide are?

You're kidding, right?

Too bad no one gave a crap about Powell being pro-abortion. Now look what we're stuck with.

For a man to be pro-abortion he must be either:

1) evil
2) criminally ignorant
3) extremely unintelligent
4) any combination of the above.

All of which disqualifies any pro-abortion man from holding any public office, including dog-catcher.

[Aquinasfan]

I forgot...

5) A coward.

[galt-jw]

WELL WELL. WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU MORONS THIS, BUT WE GET FLAMED AND TRASHED. you guys better snap out of it. you are getting real close to growing a monster you WILL NEVER be able to kill. cameras, monitoring, the whole nine yards. INSERT CHIP INTO HAND WITHIN TEN YEARS.

but, we will not close the borders to terrorist infiltrators.

do you recall how evil ALWAYS parades as the good? WAKE UP.

[Catholicguy]

http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/FR91102.HTM

<> This is a link to a long piece having to do with what is at stake here. Polycarp is right<>

[Aquinasfan]

This is a link to a long piece having to do with what is at stake here.

From the 1990 address by Peter Kreeft:

"But we do know this: if God spares New York, He will owe an apology to Sodom."

Peter (and Jerry Falwell) was onto something.

[gcruse]

" Character doesn't matter."

Moralists let the perfect drive out the good.

[Catholicguy]

Moralists let the perfect drive out the good.

<> Is that good or bad?<>

[dirtboy]

To: Tuco-bad

Quit being a retard.

He'd have to stop breathing to accomplish that...

[Catholicguy]

<> So,bringing Otto Reich, John Negroponte. Elliott Abrams, Henry Kissinger, John Poindexter etc back into the powerstructure in Washington isn't a good idea?

[gcruse]

If you think Hastert has done a better job as Speaker than Newt, then you probably think it was good.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I read the link. The words "overbreadth", "shallow scholarship" and "hysterical" come to mind.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

When our party is finally in power, controlling both houses as well as the White House, led by a supposedly pro-life, evangelical Christian President, this kind of crap should not happen.

Dream on, foot-boy.

Its funny - "The Handmaid's Tale" was running on SciFi this morning. I'm utterly positive that yopu and your fellow theocrat wannabes would love that particular vision of America.

Fortunately, that will never happen - because the rest of us see what you really are.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I'm sure you'll be reeducated.

As I always said - social conservatives aren't interested in individuality or freedom, they're only interested in control.

[APBaer]

"I'm sure you'll be reeducated."

These nut cases probably have bids in to buy such surplus "camping " supplies from the former USSR.

Funny while they're dismantling them, these nuts would sure like to be setting them up.

[philosofy123]

HK is a Rockefeller Republican. That is not a born again Republican.

[Catholicguy]

The words "overbreadth", "shallow scholarship" and "hysterical" come to mind.

<> That says volumes about your mind. Peter Kreeft is a Prof of Philosophy who has written many books<>

[Catholicguy]

<> Is Hastert perfect?<>

[gcruse]

He is nowhere near the leader Newt is. I want a strong House Speaker. But since Newt's private life isn't perfect, we hounded him out of office in favor of a wimp. But the moralists are happy. These are the same folks who are in a snit because Kissinger is heading a 9/11 committee but does not fit their agenda in areas having nothing to do with the job at hand. They are also the folks who were outraged to find some homosexuals are working in the Justice Department, as if a person's sex life has something to do with their suitability for government work, never mind the basic fact that we all have to work for a living.

[L.N. Smithee]

But since Newt's private life isn't perfect, we hounded him out of office in favor of a wimp.

Check your history, bud -- It was Bob Livingston who was hounded out of succession for Speaker because of his extramarital affair, which Larry Flynt brought to light with the House vote on impeachment looming.

Newt fired himself as Speaker days after the disastrous November 1998 election left the GOP with a sliver-thin majority, almost completely undoing the gains made by Republicans after Newt's popular "Contract With America." He had already been weakened by the 1996 not-quite-censure and $300,000 fine he was assessed for ethics violations.

Rumors of his previous adultery were well-known before his resignation, and while doubtless some knew of his diddling with a staffer, his leaving his wife for her had nothing to do with his demise.