Rumsfeld's replacement nurtured Bin Laden and pivotal in Iran-Contra

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Thursday November 09, 2006 12:37 by Terence

Former CIA deputy director looks set to step up the Iraqi War

Donald Rumsfeld who is one of the leading terrorists in the world because he has been instrumental in orchestrating the deaths of hundreds of thousands and terrorizing millions has resigned and is now to be replaced by another terrorist, Robert Gates who is a former deputy director of the CIA. Going by the record of Gates' CV, it is a certainty that the war of terror will be stepped up and many more people will be murdered whilst at the same time using up valuable global resources

Yesterday George Bush said of Rumsfeld's replacement Gates, that he is someone who: "understands the challenges we face in Afghanistan...... " when he "helped lead America’s efforts to drive Soviet forces from Afghanistan". This was when Gates played his role under Reagan as deputy director of the CIA.

Naturally Bush forgets to mention that the US through the CIA formented the trouble there in the first place, in order to draw in the Russians to give what Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisor in those years) "a bloody nose".

[In his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski says that assistance to the Afghan resistance was a tactic designed to bog down the Soviet army, while the United States built up a deterrent military force in the Persian Gulf to prevent Soviet political or military penetration further south (see: the Carter Doctrine).

In a footnote in his 2000 book, The Geostrategic Triad, Brzezinski notes:

The full story of the productive U.S.-China cooperation directed against the Soviet Union (especially in regard to Afghanistan), initiated by the Carter Administration and continued under Reagan, still remains to be told. ]

But returning to Gates, and as reported in the story referenced in the URL below:


In other words, he is one of the American intelligence officials who established intimate ties with Osama bin Laden during the CIA-backed war that shattered Afghan society. As such, he played a role in fostering the very Islamist terrorists who ultimately carried out 9/11. Nothing could express more starkly the cynicism of America’s ruling elite than Bush’s touting such a record as a qualification for leading the “war on terror.”

Gates’s ties to terrorism do not end with bin Laden. In the mid-1980s he was tied to the network of White House operatives and CIA agents who organized the “Iran-contra” operation, in which covert arms sales to Iran were used to provide illegal funding for the US-backed “contra” terror war against Nicaragua. He has likewise been linked to covert efforts in the 1980s to supply weapons to the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein during its war against Iran.

That such a figure is being introduced as the champion of a “fresh perspective” on Iraq is the clearest warning that even more horrific crimes are being prepared.


So we can see from his record that this is very bad news indeed. I would quibble with the report quoted above, where it references 9/11 because at a minimum that operation was carried out with plenty of fore knowledge by those in the top layers of the administration / spy agencies and very likely organised by them, but in all likelihood, with disgruntled members of various Islamic terror groups involved in order to run the operation as close as possible to reality. Much the same way the British ran agents deep inside the Loyalist murder squads and within the IRA with people like Stakeknife and who knows else.

Gates' Iran-Contra link is another terrorifying signal of what may lie ahead because as is well known at least 80,000 people were murdered down in Nicaragua by various right wing militias and death squads that were backed to the tune of $6+ billion and where the CIA and through their intermediaries famously sold drugs and using the proceeds bought arms for the Contras in Nicaragua. Few people fully realize that much of these drugs in the form of cocaine was what fuelled the cocaine boom in the 1980s in American inner cities and the drugs were targetted mainly in poor and black neighbourhoods. This had the dual advantage to those in power of criminalising Blacks in the eyes of the public -i.e. pushing them back as close as possible to near slave status, and two of destroying their communities so that they would never again be able to mobilize politically like they did in the 1960s. So you see Gates was up to his neck in all of this and these people knew exactly what they are doing and then we are told he is qualified to lead the War on Terror. Well they are almost right, because while the War on Terror is bogus, the War of Terror is very much the case and when you look at it this way, then Gates is very qualified.

As a further aside this was the period in the USA, during which the prison population rose dramatically as is now at 2 million people. For comparison the rates of imprisonment in Europe ranges from 60 to about 140 per 100,000 people while for Russia its 675 and the USA it is an incredible 690 per 100,000. It is the effects of these policies that contributed greatly to this present outcome. (Figures from: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=4471 )

As a footnote, people ought to be aware that it is estimated that they CIA may be responsible for the deaths of at least 6 million people as outlined by former CIA station chief for Angola in 1976, John Stockwell and reported here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm


What the report fails to comment on is the fact that Rumsfeld will now slip away quietly into a happy and pleasant retirement and will no doubt receive pension and benefits beyond the wildest dreams of most Americans and especially of the returning soldiers many of whom will be traumatized for life and are unlikely to settle into happy relationships because of what they may have seen and engaged in.

Instead it seems the compliant corporate media will present this as a new start although as outlined already the whole thing is little to do with personalities and all to do with structure of the wider society and economy.

And as a final note, we see yet again with the Stern Report just a few days ago which is basically a toned down economic perspective on Global Warming, of the crisis facing the entire world and yet these terrorists in power have, are and will continue to allocate huge resources to murder and mayhem instead of where they are urgently needed and that is repairing and mitigating the damage to the global environment.

Full report can be read at: