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Shultz denies role in Bechtel's Iraq deal: GOP insider says he 'made no calls
Former Secretary of State George Shultz, the imposing, blue-eyed eminence grise of Republican politics, finds himself at the center of an international controversy over his support of the Iraq invasion and the role of San Francisco's Bechtel Group in postwar Iraq.
But the perennial power player -- and ex-president of the construction and engineering giant -- says that he played no part in landing Bechtel's deal to rebuild Iraq.
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Shultz, who is married to San Francisco's chief of protocol, Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, and is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is a member of Bechtel's board of directors and was president of the firm for eight years before joining the Reagan administration. The Iraq contract could be worth up to $680 million.
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New York Times column Monday began with the words, "Somewhere George Shultz is smiling." The columnist wrote that Shultz "wanted this war with Iraq.
Oh, how he wanted the war" and that "blatant warmongering followed immediately by profiteering" raises questions about why Americans were fighting and dying in Iraq.
Such statements anger Shultz, who is a veteran of World War II.
"It's so preposterous, so low," Shultz said. "I'm a soldier. I served in combat. I saw people die. War is a brutalizing thing. Anyone who's been in war is not in favor of war."
Shultz was in favor of getting rid of biological and chemical weapons that he believes Saddam Hussein possessed and of replacing a dictatorship with democracy. He said that for decades he has warned of the imminent threat of terrorists.
Right, the weapons we gave to Saddam so he could destabilize Iran because we've been pissed at them every sicne they elected a democratic leader int he fifites and we had to voer throw himm and instlal the Shah and create the mess that exosts there now.
But Shultz and other unethical, right wing son of a bitches, fascists who care not one dot for anything except their own power and money, knew full well Saddam was disarmed by UN inspectors.
And the false indignation! The outrage! Oh MY!
George I remember your sorry ass from the sorry ass RayGun years and it isn't like anyone expects you to admit to your deceit or dirty tricks or insider operations.
Former Secretary of State George Shultz, the imposing, blue-eyed eminence grise of Republican politics, finds himself at the center of an international controversy over his support of the Iraq invasion and the role of San Francisco's Bechtel Group in postwar Iraq.
But the perennial power player -- and ex-president of the construction and engineering giant -- says that he played no part in landing Bechtel's deal to rebuild Iraq.
{...}
Shultz, who is married to San Francisco's chief of protocol, Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, and is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, is a member of Bechtel's board of directors and was president of the firm for eight years before joining the Reagan administration. The Iraq contract could be worth up to $680 million.
{...}
New York Times column Monday began with the words, "Somewhere George Shultz is smiling." The columnist wrote that Shultz "wanted this war with Iraq.
Oh, how he wanted the war" and that "blatant warmongering followed immediately by profiteering" raises questions about why Americans were fighting and dying in Iraq.
Such statements anger Shultz, who is a veteran of World War II.
"It's so preposterous, so low," Shultz said. "I'm a soldier. I served in combat. I saw people die. War is a brutalizing thing. Anyone who's been in war is not in favor of war."
Shultz was in favor of getting rid of biological and chemical weapons that he believes Saddam Hussein possessed and of replacing a dictatorship with democracy. He said that for decades he has warned of the imminent threat of terrorists.
Right, the weapons we gave to Saddam so he could destabilize Iran because we've been pissed at them every sicne they elected a democratic leader int he fifites and we had to voer throw himm and instlal the Shah and create the mess that exosts there now.
But Shultz and other unethical, right wing son of a bitches, fascists who care not one dot for anything except their own power and money, knew full well Saddam was disarmed by UN inspectors.
And the false indignation! The outrage! Oh MY!
George I remember your sorry ass from the sorry ass RayGun years and it isn't like anyone expects you to admit to your deceit or dirty tricks or insider operations.
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