They sent us Christopher Hichens …. seems only fair that we send them Shrum, doncha think?

LOL

Hey, Hitchens is entertaining whether drunk or drunker.
Shrum is just irritating.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..ia.georgia

Inciting War solely for McCain’s Political Gain is Treason & a War Crime.

Karl Rove needs to be stopped…he’s running the entire strategy.

How else could John McCloy be ”the friend of”, and ”serve” nine US presidents, with this background? How else could the grandson of the man, who as president of ESSO NJ, supplied the Luftwaffe with the ingredient to achieve aviation grad, fuel octane, to bomb London, and still prosper from the willed wealth of Nazi profits, become the trusted money manager and close friend of one US president, and then be appointed US ambassador to the very nation his grandfather was an integral part in the bombing of, by the successor and son of that US president, and develop a close friendship with that nation’s queen? No need to even dig, the details are all out in the open… a US political system so far right, it should tip over!

….McCloy continued to specialize in German cases and in 1936 Mccloy traveled to Berlin where he had a meeting with Rudolf Hess. This was followed by McCloy sharing a box with with Adolf Hitler and Herman Goering at the Berlin Olympics. McCloy’s law firm also represented I.G. Farben and its affiliates during this period.

In 1941 Henry L. Stimson selected McCloy to become assistant secretary of war. In this role he was involved in the decision to pass the Lend-Lease Act and the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans. He was later criticized for opposing the plan to bomb the railroads leading to Auschwitz….

…John Diebold was active in public as well as private pursuits. He was a trustee emeritus of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, and related public policy institutions.

He served as Vice Chairman to John J. McCloy at the American Council on Germany….

…John McCloy was president of the World Bank (1947-49) before replacing Lucius Clay, as High Commissioner for Germany. Soon after taking office McCloy became embroiled in the infamous case of Klaus Barbie, the man who had been Gestapo chief in Lyon during the war….

…In 1950 John McCloy began receiving communications from people in Germany calling on him to release Nazis from prison. This pressure came from senior figures in the new West German government. Two figures they were especially concerned about were German industrialists, Alfried Krupp and Friedrich Flick, who had both been convicted of serious war crimes at Nuremberg.

Alfried Krupp and his father Gustav Krupp ran Friedrich Krupp AG, Germany’s largest armaments company. Krupp and his father were initially hostile to the Nazi Party. However, in 1930 they were persuaded by Hjalmar Schacht that Adolf Hitler would destroy the trade unions and the political left in Germany. Schacht also pointed out that a Hitler government would considerably increase expenditure on armaments. In 1933 Krupp joined the Schutzstaffel (SS).

During the Second World War Krupp ensured that a continuous supply of his firm’s tanks, munitions and armaments reached the German Army. He was also responsible for moving factories from occupied countries back to Germany where they were rebuilt by the Krupp company….

…In March 1950, McCloy was given the task of appointing a new head of the West German Secret Service. After discussing the matter with Frank Wisner of the CIA, McCloy decided on Reinhard Gehlen, the Nazi war criminal. This resulted in protests from the Soviet Union government who wanted to try Gehlen for war crimes……

…. McCloy also began pardoning German industrialists who had been convicted at Nuremberg. This included Fritz Ter Meer, the senior executive of I. G. Farben, the company that produced Zyklon B poison for the gas chambers. He was also Hitler’s Commissioner of for Armament and War Production for the chemical industry during the war…..

…In January, 1951, McCloy announced that Alfried Krupp and eight members of his board of directors who had been convicted with him, were to be released. His property, valued at around 45 million, and his numerous companies were also restored to him.

Others that McCloy decided to free included Friedrich Flick, one of the main financial supporters of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). During the Second World War Flick became extremely wealthy by using 48,000 slave labourers from SS concentration camps in his various industrial enterprises. It is estimated that 80 per cent of these workers died as a result of the way they were treated during the war. His property was restored to him and like Krupp became one of the richest men in Germany.

McCloy’s decision was very controversial. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to McCloy to ask: ”Why are we freeing so many Nazis?…..

Monday, Aug. 19, 1957
…The wealthiest man in Europe—and perhaps in the world—rose shortly before 8 one morning this week in a modest ranch-style house….

…the day was an important one in the life of Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, ruler and sole owner of Germany’s $1 billion Krupp industrial empire. On Alfried Krupp’s soth birthday, his worldwide empire was ready to do him honor…..

…After leaving Germany in 1953 McCloy became chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-60) and the Ford Foundation (1958-65). He also continued to work for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. The company was owned by the Rockefeller family and therefore McCloy became involved in lobbying for the gas and oil industry.

McCloy remained close to Dwight D. Eisenhower …

….It was Eisenhower who first introduced McCloy to Sid Richardson and Clint Murchison. Soon afterwards, Chase Manhattan Bank began providing the men with low-interest loans. In 1954 McCloy worked with Richardson, Murchison and Robert R. Young in order to take control of the New York Central Railroad Company. …..

……Lyndon B. Johnson discussed the possibility of appointing John McCloy to the Warren Commission in a telephone conversation with Abe Fortas on 29th November, 1963. When Johnson mentioned his name Fortas replied: “I think that’d be great. He’s a wonderful man and a very dear friend of mine. I’m devoted to him.”…..

….when Richard Russell, Thomas Hale Boggs and John Sherman Cooper said that they had “strong doubts” about the lone gunman theory, McCloy took the side of Gerald R. Ford and Allen Dulles. In fact, McCloy played the main role in persuading the three men to sign the Warren Commission report that they did not believe in…..

….in 1975 McCloy established the McCloy Fund. The main purpose of this organization was to promote German-American relations. The initial funding came from German industrialists. In 1982, the chairman of the Krupp Foundation, Berthold Beitz, gave the McCloy Fund a $2 million grant.

Three years later, the president of Germany, Richard von Weizsacker, conferred honorary German citizenship on McCloy. He praised McCloy’s “human decency in helping the beaten enemy to recover” and his efforts to build “one of the free and prosperous countries in the world.” Weizsacker had good reason to be thankful to McCloy. His father was Ernst von Weizsacker, a leading official in Adolf Hitler’s government. ….

…John McCloy developed a close relationship with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran), who gained power in Iran during the Second World War. McCloy’s legal firm, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, provided legal counsel to Pahlavi. The Chase International Investment Corporation, which McCloy established in the 1950s, had several joint ventures in Iran.

McCloy was also chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Pahlavi had a personal account with the bank. So also did his private family trust, the Pahlavi Foundation. …

..Rockefeller also established the highly secret, Project Alpha. The main objective was to persuade Carter to provide a safe haven for Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (code-named ”Eagle”). McCloy, Rockefeller and Kissinger were referred to as the ”Triumvirate”. Rockefeller used money from Chase Manhattan Bank to pay employees of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy who worked on the project. Some of this money was used to persuade academics to write articles defending the record of Pahlavi. For example, George Lenczowski, professor emeritus at the University of California, was paid $40,000 to write a book with the ”intention to answer the shah’s critics”.

Kissinger telephoned Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to Carter, on 7th April, 1979, and berated the president for his emphasis on human rights, which he considered to be ”amateurish” and ”naive”. Brzezinski suggested he talked directly to Jimmy Carter. Kissinger called Carter and arranged for him to meet David Rockefeller, two days later. Gerald Ford also contacted Carter and urged him to ”stand by our friends”.

McCloy, Rockefeller and Kissinger arranged for conservative journalists to mount an attack on Carter over this issue. ….

…Faced with the now unanimous opposition of his closest advisers, the president reluctantly agreed to admit the Shah. He arrived at New York Hospital on 22nd October, 1979. Joseph V. Reed circulated a memo to McCloy and other members of Project Alpha: ”Our mission impossible is completed. My applause is like thunder.” Less than two weeks later, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and took hostage 66 Americans. Thus beginning the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

McCloy now persuaded Jimmy Carter to freeze all Iran’s assets in the United States. This was the day before Iran’s $4.05 million interest payment was due on its $500 million loan. As this was not now paid, Chase Manhattan Bank announced that the Iranian government was in default. The bank was now allowed to seize all of Iran’s Chase accounts and used this money to ”offset” any outstanding Iranian loans. In fact, by the end of this process, the bank ended up in profit from the deal……

…Ultimate Insider, Ultimate Outsider – New York Times It was a logical choice: John J. McCloy, the friend and adviser to nine Presidents, the Wall Street lawyer par excellence, the chairman of the Council on…

….Farish’s own family fortune was made in the same Hitler project, … was supplying gasoline and tetraethyl lead to Germany’s submarines and air force….

..Reporter’s Notebook; A Weekend With Bush, In His Numerous Forms …Since the election, he has visited all three of the estates of Mr. Farish, a Houston businessman who manages Mr. Bush’s blind trust. …

…A horse enthusiast, the queen has stabled horses at Kentucky farms and spent time at the 1800-acre Lane’s End Farm, owned by Will Farish, ……

….Queen fulfils dream in Millionaire’s Row at the Kentucky Derby …May 6, 2007 … The Queen’s Praetorian Guard against a press of D-list celebrities were William Farish, former US ambassador to London, and his wife Sarah, ….