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East Timor Controversy
In August of 1977, then Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke traveled to Indonesia to meet with Suharto in the midst of one of the Indonesian military’s brutal counterinsurgency campaigns in East Timor in which tens of thousands of East Timorese were being slaughtered. Holbrook visited officially to press for human rights reform, however once Suharto was met by Holbrooke, he was praised for Indonesia’s human rights improvements and was told that he in fact welcomed the steps that Indonesia had taken to open East Timor to the West, allowing a delegation of congressmen to enter the territory under strict military guard, where they were greeted by staged celebrations, welcoming the Indonesian armed forces.
Behind the scenes, Holbrooke and Zbigniew Brzezinski, played point in trying to frustrate the efforts of congressional human rights activists to try and condition or stop US military assistance to Indonesia and in fact accelerated the flow of weapons to Indonesia at the height of the genocide.
Source
The briefing was organized by the UCCA America and McGuireWoods LLP, an international law firm, in whose Washington offices the event was held. The briefing was moderated by Mark Brzezinski of McGuireWoods.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Richardson will be the VP AND the button man for the CFR/Bildebergers.
Soros holds the purse strings. Holbrooke won't be VP. He'll just be
one of the dark overlords (picture a Harry Potter dementor) that
floats around the dank and darkened halls of the Obama West Wing.
Originally posted by Anti-Tyrant
*cough*
Stop taking the bilderberg thing out of proportion, child.
Originally posted by Anti-Tyrant
reply to post by jamie83
Considering the fact that you changed the title of the thread, it's not too surprising that you would say that.
Sorry, i got the nasty feeling that you were using that link as a method of drawing people into the thread so they could listen to you blather on about how pathetic Obama is.
Originally posted by jamie83
It's not about what's best for the country. It's about what's best for Obama's backers. It's disgusting.
Originally posted by Anti-Tyrant
Originally posted by jamie83
It's not about what's best for the country. It's about what's best for Obama's backers. It's disgusting.
And?
Do you have a method of approaching this problem constructively or are you just going to continue attacking him as if it will actually do anything?
Originally posted by jamie83
Would you prefer not to learn these facts about Obama?
Originally posted by Andrew E. Wiggin
What makes a true test of character, however, is how a man handles his "filthy men". Do they cave in and give these men what they want? Some do. Some don't.
Will Obama? Time will tell.
But reporting "Obama might get a man who has money into his campaign"
is like saying "Jamie started another anti-obama post"
Originally posted by jimmyx
yeah, yeah, obama is going to destroy this nation, blah, blah .... please just go away