Lawrence Eagleburger has filled Gates' seat in the Iraq Study Group

[eleny]

Just announced on MSNBC.

Eagleburger was Secretary of State under George Bush Senior. Poppy is sure back in charge.

Do you suppose he even puts Georgie in his room for time outs, too?

[Virginia Dare]

1. All the usual suspects....

Jr., go sit in the corner while Daddy cleans up this mess.

[Ian David]

3. Exactly what I was thinking. Daddy to the rescue again!

"Okay, son. You can borrow another toadie from my cabinet. But be careful with it this time."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. maybe the real question is, was poppie ever out of the loop?

Could this iraqnam and iranian policy come from daddy Bush in cooperation with Cheney and the PNACs?

[Jawja]

4. I wouldn't think so.

I think Junior dismissed any advice Poppy had to give.

I do think Poppy is cleaning up the mess now.

[eleny]

Sounds spot on to me

Maybe they had some parting of the ways. But now that the Party got the boot, Poppy has to step in with his boys for the big finesse. Not that Poppy didn't make his own mistakes and lose the chance at a second term. I hope Biden doesn't bend over for them.

Nice to let it finally sink in that they aren't as smart or powerful as I believed. I thought for sure that they had a major shot at their dream of a one party government for the rest of my lifetime. Now, I have more faith in us, the people. This morning I heard that this election, more young people voted than ever - by percentages compared to the past. This is such a good thing.

[Jacobin]

18. no

This was junior and the neocons ideas.

Poppy is now trying to clean up Junior diaper

[ArmchairMeme]

28. Great questions!

[cosmicdot]

33. if he has been profiting the past 6 years

he's in the loop (policy affects profits)

any comment from Jr. not wanting Poppy's advice, imo, is a mere deflection from the truth and I think they're thick as thieves (literally)

[whistle]

5. These are fascist Federalists that are moving into these positions

...the thugs are being moved out and the real sources of evil are coming into the light

[Virginia Dare]

6. Just another group of thugs we didn't elect...n/t

[eleny]

7. Out from the shadows at last

[DemoTex]

8. Lawrence Eagleburger: Halliburton board, Kissinger Associates.

Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (1930-) was born in Milwaukee. Described as a career diplomat, Eagleburger joined the Foreign Service in 1957 and held a series of embassy, State Department, national security, and Defense Department posts before serving as Ambassador (1977-81) to Yugoslavia. He was a State Department Assistant Secretary (1981-82) and Undersecretary (1982-84) before serving as Deputy Secretary of State (1989-92) and Secretary of State (1992-93) under President George Herbert Walker Bush, becoming the first Foreign Service officer to hold the latter post.

Eagleburger serves as President of Kissinger Associates, Inc. and currently Senior Foreign Policy Advisor with Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell (a Washington D.C. law firm). As a member of the board of directors of the Halliburton Company, he is a member of the Audit, the Compensation and the Management Oversight and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lawrence_Sidney_Eagleburger

I am not sure this is 100% up-to-date, but you get the drift.

[eleny]

10. "President of Kissinger Associates, Inc." - We know how HK feels about Iraq

This is dismal. Biden had better not crumble.

[DemoTex]

11. BTW: K&R. This is as egregious as it gets.

Arrogant, fat bastards!

:kick:

[eleny]

12. Thank you for the K&R!

I also posted something in the Activist forum pointing directly to your posting above on Eagleberger's background.

DT, this gives me the chills. But I'm glad it at least comes when we have the majority and I feel a renewed sense of strength. Pushing the rock up the hill is easier then fleeing down the hill with that rock gaining on my heels.

[TahitiNut]

22. Yep. He's one of the Godfathers in the Global Crime cabal.

While I have little comfort using such terminology, I can find none other to aptly portray the entrenched corruption of these people. It's like all the non-Italian organized crime from the Batista days moved into goveernment.

[asjr]

9. This is pathetic! Poppy sent

Jr. off to summer camp six years ago to make him a real man. All it did was make him a real ass. Now parental control has to take over. I didn't like Poppy and I certainly do not like any of his sons. Poppy is trying to have a do-over. If the Democrats don't put the brakes on and say NO they aren't worth what they are cracked up to be. I have had enough of imperial rule and I do not want any more.

[butterfly77]

13. Didn't these people do enough to fuck up this country...

They so called served their country now get the fuck on and let someone else on these committees! I know damn well these aren't the only people who have ideas on what is best for the country it is time for some new ideas! These are some of the same people who got us into these conflicts with other nations...

[eleny]

14. Shameless kick - Trolling for a few more Recommendations

I have no shame. But this issue torques me down.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

15. Time to break out my Iran_Contra deck of cards....

Every one of these guys seems to be slithering back into the administration....

[eleny]

16. You're right

They'll never propose anything to get the troops out of their job of protecting Halliburton and "The Poppy Group" interests.

Those old men have no shame when it comes to their greed and lust for power. The "New World Order" is now the only thing from the past we haven't heard articulated. Yet.

[conscious evolution]

17. This is bad news

Heis part of the problem.We need to say hell no to putting this man in any position of responsibility.

[eleny]

19. We have no say in who's in the Iraq Group

That's Baker's baby. Unfortunately.

[NMDemDist2]

20. they are all evil bastards K& N n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

21. and when you say "fills his seat," he REALLY fills Gates' seat.

make that seats. no way Larry could fit in the same seat as Gates. make it three.

[eleny]

24. A bench for the wide load

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. Eagleburger?

Wow. It's like the good ole boys are all crawling out of the dark, damp crevice they've been hiding in for fifteen years.

[DoYouEverWonder]

25. This is like letting the foxes loose

in the chicken coop.

They aren't interested in 'fixing' anything. They just want to save their own sorry asses. They were all in on it, even before Bush dreamed of being President.

[eleny]

26. Fox with swollen bellies and they still want another bite

They can't seem to get enough power. And for what? A fancier nursing home? And their next generation appears worthless - in the case of the Bushes at least. Immortal they ain't. Their brand of greed is more like a disease.

[DoYouEverWonder]

27. And they never die

either.

What is with these reptiles?

[bobthedrummer]

40. And they won't stop doing this until they are gone-they've got to GO. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

29. I thought we threw all these sorry criminal bastards out in 92!

IMPEACH BOTH BUSH WIMPS! ASAP

[Horse with no Name]

30. K&R

Unbelievable.
Do you suppose one of their jobs is to cover all of the tracks permanently?
Didn't Junior classify a while slew of unclassified documents at the beginning of his first term?
Do you suppose this is the exact way it was supposed to go down--but the timing is wrong and Junior didn't get his entire mission accomplished so now the process has to be expedited?
Do you suppose this is why the punditry (Operation Mockingbird) are so intent on spreading the message of No Impeachment?
Are they buying time so they can get finished?

[bluedigger]

31. Shiver

I really didn't need to know this!

Eagleberger is NOT a good guy...I bet he even creeps out the other former Sec's of State!

[spindrifter]

32. Looks like the Iraq Study Group is a playpen

holding area for new appointees to Lame Duck's top spots. Hmmm. Where can they put LArry next?

[Jcrowley]

34. No doubt

George "The Godfather" Schultz will be resurrected from whatever state he is currently in.

[bobthedrummer]

35. Before BCCI there was the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro/BNL "scandal"

Lawrence Eagleburger and the rest of the Iraq Study Group are all old BFEE hands-it's still the BFEE.

From The Congressional Record, thanks to the late Henry Gonzales, a BFEE indictment from 1992 that STILL APPLIES TODAY!

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/congress/1992/h920428g.htm

[Jcrowley]

36. out with the old in with the old

the revolving door in the pentagon of power

[bobthedrummer]

37. "Return of the Iran-Contra Crew" from Project for the Old American Century.Org

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/bushco/bushcontra.htm

[bobthedrummer]

38. kick

[bobthedrummer]

39. Golly, anyone else wonder what they are "studying"? n/t