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

[Polycarp]

Kissinger's memo NSSM 200 formed the basis of U.S. foreign policy in the area of population ... 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.

Sounds more like a holdover from the Clinton Admin than a Republican...

Pinging

[Paleo Conservative]

But what do his views on population control have to do with investigating the September 11, 2001 attacks?

[anniegetyourgun]

zip.

[Cicero]

This seems silly to me. What earthly connection does a 9/11 investigation have with abortion? I am very strongly in favor of appointing pro-lifers to sensitive positions, or electing them to sensitive offices, but this complaint strikes me as completely silly.

Kissinger would be a questionable choice if anyone expected this commission to turn up embarrassing secrets about intelligence failures. But that isn't in the cards, either.

Kissinger was chosen because he is a person of "stature" in the liberal press who will derail this whole issue and bury it. Meantime, pro-lifers should focus on the important issues, like banning partial birth abortion and cloning and appointing good judges.

[Dog Gone]

I must have missed something. Was Kissinger selected for a panel investigating abortion?

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

He was appointed to this.

[APBaer]

Kissinger's views on population have nothing to do with 911, unless you think James Kopp was flying the planes into the World Trade Center when he was not otherwise occupied.

You appear to be a one-issue person and
to a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail

[el_texicano]

I have to agree...WHAT does investigating 9/11 have to do with HK's association with population control???? Someone needs to enlighten me here.

[PhiKapMom]

This is exactly why the pro-life movement doesn't get the traction it should. When you pick on something like this that has nothing to do with investigating 9/11, you lose all credibility!

Pro-life and investigation 9/11 has zero in common!

[montag813]

Kissinger Strongly Implicated in Population Control and Abortion

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

Save your powder for the real fights. Sheesh, how stupid it this nonsense.

[Endeavor]

Kissinger is assigned the task of what went wrong re: 9/11, not the Administration's pro-life policies. Get it?

[NJJ]

But what do his views on population control have to do with investigating the September 11, 2001 attacks?

Exactly. Thanks for saving me the time to write it.

[tet68]

Hang Admiral Kimmel, to hell with Wake Island.

[11th Earl of Mar]

If these prolifers never learn to pick their battles, they will continue to look as foolish as they do here.

[William McKinley]

I am not a big fan of Kissinger, but exactly what abortion would have to do with 9/11 escapes me.

[breakem]

If this is the only reason you can find not to appoint Kissinger to this issue, you wasted your time.

[Tuco-bad]

As a former national security advisor, Kissinger is expected to shield National Security Advisor Rice from any blame.

That's Kissinger's role pure and simple.

Rice should be sacked!

[Dog Gone]

Quit being a retard.

[Godel]

I guess its better for the third world to keep on having 8+ kids and immigrating here until our culture is extinct. Then at least we can pass into oblivion with a clear conscience. 1000 years from now people can read about those strange pale skinned people who built all the cities and invented strange technology then went extinct as they didnt have kids and their cities were occupied by hordes of people from the third world. Maybe we'll be kind of like Atlanteans.

God forbid we ask the third world to actually have a supportable number of children, heck if they have too many kids we can just have less ourselves then support theirs. Itll all even out in the end right.