Sunday, May 01, 2005
Cheney, Rumsfeld tell Trilaterals no Iran war
American Free Press April 22, 2005:Both Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reassured members of the Trilateral Commission, meeting in Washington April 15-18, that they anticipated no invasion of Iran. Rumsfeld further assured Trilateralists that Iraq "will not be another Vietnam" with “combat troops on patrol 10 years from now,” Trilateral sources said.
However, they stressed the qualification "combat patrol," indicating that troops may remain for logistical duties.
Logistical duties can turn into combat with a single shot. Both Cheney and Rumsfeld are old-timers with international power groups. As secretary of defense under President Bush the Elder, Cheney participated in the annual closed meetings of the Trilaterals.
Rumsfeld has participated with the Trilaterals and its brother group, Bilderberg, as a White House aide under President Ronald Reagan and as defense secretary under the current President Bush.
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Cheney spoke on "policy directions for the U.S. administration" on April 16. Rumsfeld addressed the 300 Trilaterals shortly before they headed for the airports Monday afternoon.
Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense and president-elect of the World Bank, addressed the TC’s dinner meeting April 17. Wolfowitz assured everyone that the United States would be a "willing partner" in helping “developing nations” enhance their economies, meaning more American tax dollars would be shipped to poor countries.
Following Cheney’s speech on opening day, David Gergen provided an “analysis of the American electorate.” He warned that "nationalism" remains a strong force in America and selling the idea of surrendering sovereignty to the UN will be difficult. In TC and Bilderberg dictionaries,"nationalism" is an obscenity.
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The only other coverage of the meeting appeared in The Washington Times. Reporter Joseph Curl overheard Francois Sauzey of Paris, a member of the TC staff, complain that “Everyone’s beating up on France because of the coming referendum.”
Sauzey was referring to several polls in France that indicate voters will reject the proposed European Union constitution, a reversal of public sentiment. If just one nation rejects it, the constitution dies. .....---
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